Quantity Sotheby's catalogues on Islamic Art, dated 1976-80, London new Bond Street, including the Hagop Kevorkian Fund, Islamic works of Art and ancient & Islamic glass and fine Oriental miniatures and manuscripts (quantity)
Leather bound Qu'ran. Provenance: A former diplomatic family based in the ACT (collection formed in the 1950s & 60s); by descent to the current owner, 20 x 10 cm (pages)
A pair of Islamic manuscript Pages, circa 19th century, gouache on paper, one depicting figures at a camp with tents within a forest, the other depicting a seated noble figure surrounded by attendants within a forest, the latter inscribed with Islamic…
A Mughal miniature painting, Northern India, late18th/early 19th century, Burraq with Archangel Gabriel, Farsi Calligraphic panel verso, gouache, gold and pigment on wasli paper, painted with a Burraq, the lightning fast glimmering creature that carried…
An antique Islamic Indo-Persian illuminated manuscript page, 19th century. One loose folio with recto, finely illustrated with images of two hornbills. Ink and opaque watercolour on paper, mounted in lucite panel. 34.8 x 18.4 cm, Note: The text is written…
Kashmiri Islamic manuscript. An antique Quran manuscript leaf in nashki script, one loose folio with recto, 18th century, 16.5 x 9.2 cm, note: this fine manuscript page is purportedly from a broken Quran scribed in Kashmir for the Nawab Amir Khan in 1727.…
Islamic Qu'ran manuscript two Illuminated double sided calligraphy Folios. Probably 15th century. Tears, fixed to mount with masking tape. Provenance: A former diplomatic family based in the ACT (collection formed in the 1950s & 60s); by descent to the…
A Syrian parcel gilt and silver Koranic box circa 1880 with chased and engraved decoration and cartouches of Koranic scripture amid backgrounds and borders of interlocking Islamic trellises, 3 cm high x 8 cm wide x 5 cm deep. Provenance: Purchased from…
A large Uzbek Mecca inscribed copper and brass ewer 19th century, the body is engraved with bands of scrolling flowers and leaf motifs, terminating in a flared foot, flanked by a 'S' shaped handle, 34 cm high. Provenance: Purchased from Michael Backman,…
Illuminated Qu'ran / Koran . Provenance: A former diplomatic family based in the ACT (collection formed in the 1950s & 60s); by descent to the current owner, height 16 cm
An 18th century Persian Qu'ran manuscript page, depicting the story of Joseph, gouache on vellum, with script verso, 16.5 x 27 cm within double side view perspex box frame