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A Kutahya pottery hanging ornament, Ottoman Turkey, 19th century, of generous
‘egg’ shape, brightly painted in blue, yellow, turquoise and green with red details,
19cm high x 17.5cm wide

Provenance:
From the Mohamed Makiya Collection

£400-600

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A group of Central Asian and Iranian metalworks including a Qajar A miscellaneous group of antiquities and later objects, including seven
agate plaque, 19 century and later, comprising: a small brass bowl Cypriot terracotta heads and busts of votive figures, circa 8 -7 Century 504
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decorated with nasta’liq inscriptions around the rim, 6cm diam; a B.C.; a fragmentary Hellenistic female figure wearing a belted chiton, Two Kashan turquoise glazed pottery oil
talismanic silver plaque 7.8cm high; an octagonal pierced box 7cm diam; her right arm raised to her head holding a pitcher; an Etruscan hollow lamps, 12th/13th Century, oinochoe shaped
an Qajar agate plaque finely carved with nasta’liq inscription, 8.2cm terracotta female votive head; a hollow-backed Hellenistic terracotta top over stem and dish base, 8cm and 7.3cm
diam; and a small inscribed pottery roundel, 4cm diam (5) mask of a bearded male, circa 3 -2 Century B.C.; two Roman terracotta high and an early cream slip glazed pottery
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lamps; an iridescent Islamic glass jug with funnel neck and pad base; a dish, the ground with traces of ochre glaze,
Provenance: zoomorphic terracotta vessel with short funnel neck and handle on the 22cm diameter (3)
From the Mohamed Makiya Collection back; a Gandharan stucco head, other miscellaneous objects including a
terracotta head of a bull and three Gogotte sandstone formations (a lot) Provenance:
£150-250 Private collection London
Provenance: 504
From the Mohamed Makiya Collection £120-180

£500-700

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A Samanid polychrome buffware bowl, Persia, probably Nishapur, 10
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century, underglaze brown, yellow and green painted earthenware, with
central figure of a horse, ridden by a panther or chettah, surrounded by
scrolling border, various old collection and auction labels, 20.5cm diameter

Provenance:
Formerly H.K. Monif (died 1964), New York (bears label on reverse);
acquired from Binoche et Giquello, 24 June 2016, lot 60, Binoche and
Giquello, Paris, 24th June 2016, lot 60

For a discussion of this type of early Persian Islamic pottery, see Oliver
Watson, Ceramics from Islamic Lands: the Al-Sabah Collection, London
2004, pp.246-251.
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£300-500
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