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An Indian long embroidered hanging, Rajasthan, 20th century, A large painting of an Ariel view of Kabba, perhaps Ottoman Turkish
embroidered cotton with mirror glass appliqué, of rectangular form, the School or later, oil on canvas, 120cm x 90cm
design comprising four panels, each divided by scrolling floral borders,
each depicting various figures and animals amidst scrolling foliage, lined, £800-1,000
approximately 99cm high x 400cm long

Provenance:
From the Mohamed Makiya Collection

£200-400

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An illustrated copy of a section of Nizami’s Khamsa (Khosrow and Shirin and The Seven Beauties), North India, Kashmir, 19 century
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Persian manuscript on paper, 20 lines to the page written in black nasta’liq divided in four columns, ruled in yellow, red and blue, f.1b loose and
cropped with a polychrome heading with the beginning of Khosrow and Shirin, the other heading in the middle of the manuscript, with 22
illustrations, including Bahram Gur visiting the seven pavilions, misbound incomplete and with sections loose, at least two different hands, the
contemporaneous brown leather binding with three stamped roundels, the borders with stamped flowers

Leaf: 27.5 by 17cm; text panel: 21 by 12cm.

Provenance:
From the collection of the late Jerzy Ostrovsky, who lived in Kabul in the 1960’s and 1970’s, working as the dentist to the Western diplomatic corps.

£500-700

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