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A Qur’anic prayer board from Sub-Saharan
512 Africa and an Indian wooden painted panel and a
A Shia genealogical scroll, Damascus, Syria, dated Rabi’ I 961 AH/ lacquer pen box, 20 century, the wooden board
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February 1554 AD, the Arabic manuscript on paper partly backed on with surah a- Fatihah (I, vv.1-7) and surah an-Nas
green silk, the top section decorated with polychrome and golden (CXIV, vv.1-6) written in Ifriqi script, 63.5cm x 25cm;
ink, the lower section with an unfinished genealogy within roundels, the wooden panel decorated on each side with
the reverse with additional genealogical notes, approximately 300cm polychrome flowers within cartouches, 58cm x 30cm
x 31.5cm and the lacquered cardboard cylinder painted with
polychrome standing figures within niches, with tin
A note states that the scroll was read and corrected with Muhammad inset to the cover, 46cm high x 9cm diameter (3)
bin Ahmad al-Muli in Rabi’ II 961 AH, another note lists the names of
the witnesses, including their cities of origin, among these Aleppo and Provenance:
Izra are mentioned. From the Mohamed Makiya Collection

Provenance: £150-200
From the Mohamed Makiya Collection

£300-500 515
Three Contemporary paintings, Iran, 20th century,
comprising; Buildings before a Mountain, pastel,
513 signed ‘IYAD. M 95’, 100cm x 78cm; Abstract, oil on
An Ottoman silver-repoussé mirror, Turkey, 19 century, of round panel, unsigned, 44cm x 34cm; Abstract, oil on board,
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form, the reverse with silver-repoussé decoration with floral spray, inscribed and dated 2004 to verso, 50.5cm x 37cm and
radiating from a raised bird, the mirror cracked, 29.5cm diam three various glass paintings, one with foil inclusions,
24cm x 19.5cm, 26cm x 36cm and 23cm x 33.5cm (6)
Provenance:
From the Mohamed Makiya Collection Provenance:
From the Mohamed Makiya Collection
£250-350 514 (part lot)
£150-250

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