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THRee PORTRAITS ON IVORy, dePIcTINg MAHARAJAH A SAFAVId cAllIgRAPHIc exeRcISe wRITTeN IN NASTA’lIq
RANJIT SINgH, ANOTHeR RuleR, PROBABly THe ScRIPT
MAHARAJAH OF BeNAReS, ANd A lAdy wITH A dOg Persia, first half of the 16th century
North India, circa 1860 Persian manuscript on paper, six lines written diagonally in nasta’liq
Gouache and gold on ivory, mounted in one frame. script in black ink on a gold-sprinkled brown ground within cloud
Frame 24cm x 42 cm bands, against a gold ground, illuminated corner piece at upper right
of text panel, illuminated headpiece in colour and gold, with the name
£300 - 500 of Mir’Ali at lower left, laid down on a later album page with stylised
floral inner borders, coloured inner margins, gold-sprinkled dark blue
100 outer border, album page trimmed, early 19th Century Indian seal
TwO RIdeRS IN cOMBAT, ONe SPeARINg THe OTHeR, impression verso. Album page 25.2cm x 17.7cm
ATTeNdANTS ON FOOT, PROBABly A SceNe FROM THe
SHAHNAMA £300 - 400
Popular Mughal, circa 1600
Gouache and gold on paper, probably cut down from a larger PROVeNANce:
composition. Private US collection.
6.5cm x 19.5 cm
The unidentified text consists of Persian verses praising Muhammad,
£400 - 600 his family and ‘Ali.

101 The seal impression verso is Indian, reading Fakhr al-Din Mir Husayn
No lot Khan Bahadur [12]32/AD 1816-17.
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TwO glASS lAMPS dePIcTINg NASR Al-dIN SHAH qAJAR A PRINce ANd A MAIdeN SeATed ON A PAlAce TeRRAce
Europe, 19th Century Pahari, mid-19th century
Each with baluster supports on splayed feet with domed drip trays Gouache and gold on paper, dark blue border.
and flaring tops, with removable shades, the drip trays with pendant 23.8cm x 15 cm
cut glass shards, the shades with portraits of the Shah to one side,
and Qajar lion and suns to the other. £250 - 300
63cm high
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£200 - 300 A cAIRO-wARe BOwl
19th/20th century
Of oviform and decorated in Mamluk-style with arabesques and
inscription cartouches between bands of knotwork. 20cm high

£300 - 400

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