Friday 28 April 2023 | Lots:
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Antiquities, Islamic & Indian Arts
Friday 28 April 2023 10:00
The sale features 528 lots of well provenanced, mainly private collections including a large group of early Islamic works to be sold without reserve. Early Qur’an folios and scientific manuscripts, a wonderful private collection of Indian miniatures and metalwork and a fantastic Bindu work by contemporary Indian painter S.H. Raza feature. Opening with the Antiquities section, we are pleased to present a rare Iberian limestone bust of a lady. A folio from the 18th century Ardeshir album leads a desirable group of miniatures from the Kangra, Guler, Pahari, and Mughal schools of painting and a group of Company school botanical drawings by P. Mooroogasen Moodeliar compliments a watercolour of a snakeskin painted for Patrick Russell’s eponymous 18th century monograph on snakes. It's sure to be an exciting sale.
Viewing at Roseberys
Sunday 23 April: 10am – 2pm
Monday 24 April: 9.30am – 5pm
Tuesday 25 April: 9.30am – 5pm
Wednesday 26 April: 9.30am – 5pm
Thursday 27 April: 9.30am – 5pm
Highlight Lots
LOT 196
Syed Haider Raza (1922-2016), Bindu, 1995 Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 120 cm. (47 1/4 x 47 1/4 in.)...
Estimate: £50,000 - £70,000
Bidder Deposit Required: £10,000
Price Realised: £312,000
LOT 208
A complete Armenian book of Gospels, 16th century or earlier, Armenian manuscript on vellum, 303...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Price Realised: £19,500
LOT 214
A Qur'an bifolium, North Africa, 9th-10th century, Arabic manuscript on vellum, with 11 lines to...
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Price Realised: £15,600
LOT 216
A Kufic Qur’an folio, Near East or North Africa, 9th century, Arabic manuscript on vellum, Surah...
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Price Realised: £15,600
LOT 222
A Mamluk astronomical treatise, apparently based on The Book of Fixed Stars, compiled by Ahmed...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Price Realised: £182,000
LOT 253
A miniature Ottoman Qur'an, signed 'Abd al-Fakir Muhamaddun, Turkey, dated 906AH/1501AD, rebound...
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Price Realised: £19,500
LOT 26
An Iberian carved limestone head of a female, 5th-1st century B.C., with Hellenistic-style face,...
Estimate: £2,000 - £4,000
Price Realised: £4,680
LOT 297
An Ottoman copy of the Marifetname of Ibrahim Hakki Erzurumlu (d.1780), an encyclopedic work...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Price Realised: £20,800
LOT 301
Kitab Sajjat al-Akbar, a genealogy of rulers, starting from Cain and Abel, including...
Estimate: £200 - £300
Price Realised: £494
LOT 31
A group of five Indus Valley copper idols, India, 4th Millenium BC, mounted together, largest 20...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Price Realised: £2,860
LOT 429
An Italo-Islamic marble roundel (patera), 12th-13th century, square form carved in deep relief...
Estimate: £5,000 - £7,000
Price Realised: £57,200
LOT 1
A large Egyptian alabaster shallow bowl, Early Dynastic Period, circa 3100-2686 B.C., with...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
LOT 2
Four Egyptian New Kingdom bright blue glazed faience inlay or tile fragments, each inscribed or...
Estimate: £300 - £500
LOT 3
Three Egyptian glazed faience shabtis Late Dynastic Period, circa 664-332 B.C.
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
LOT 4
An Egyptian style darkened alabaster stopper in the form of human-headed Imsety, 6.8cm high, red...
Estimate: £100 - £200
LOT 5
Six Egyptian glazed faience amulets and shabtis, including a large amulet of Bes standing with...
Estimate: £300 - £500
LOT 6
An Egyptian amethyst scarab with delineated wing-case, probably New Kingdom, 1.9cm long, set...
Estimate: £100 - £120
LOT 7
An Egyptian Middle Kingdom wood seated male figure with much of the original pigment remaining,...
Estimate: £100 - £120
LOT 8
An Egyptian style decorative necklace, 20th century, including blue glazed tubular faience...
Estimate: £50 - £80
LOT 9
An Egyptian style decorative figure of a striding feline god, set on an integral rectangular...
Estimate: £50 - £80
LOT 10
Two Egyptian Middle Kingdom pottery vessels, including an ovoid alabastron tapering to a point,...
Estimate: £600 - £900
LOT 11
Four necklaces, variously composed of glass, stone, carnelian and faience beads of spherical,...
Estimate: £100 - £200
LOT 12
A Greek terracotta figure of a nude phallic dwarf, carrying a sack across his back, set on an...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
LOT 13
A Greek black glazed lid from a vessel, with conical knop, circa 4th -3rd Century B.C., 15.7cm...
Estimate: £150 - £200
LOT 14
Two Greek terracotta hollow-backed relief fragments, each of a bearded male banqueteer wearing...
Estimate: £200 - £300
LOT 15
Two Greek pottery vessels, one an Apulian red-figure trefoil-lipped chous, the front panel...
Estimate: £400 - £600
LOT 16
A Mycenaean pottery stirrup vessel, the globular body with a central false-spout, flanked by...
Estimate: £400 - £600
LOT 17
Two Greek pottery kylices , Circa 5th-4th Century B.C., An Apulian black glazed stemless kylix,...
Estimate: £300 - £500
LOT 18
An Attic black-figure lekythos with palmette decoration, circa 6th Century B.C., 13.6cm high; a...
Estimate: £200 - £300
LOT 19
A Greek terracotta head of a female with melon coiffure, with traces of white pigment remaining,...
Estimate: £80 - £120
LOT 20
A Greek terracotta fragmentary figure of a youth, 13cm and an ancient terracotta fragmentary...
Estimate: £100 - £120
LOT 21
A pair of Hellenistic gold earrings, with bull head terminals, the tapering coiled wire hooking...
Estimate: £500 - £700
LOT 22
A Greek or Roman pottery loom weight of conical form, 11.2cm high Provenance: Private UK Collection
Estimate: £60 - £80
LOT 23
A buff pottery vessel, the sloping shoulders decorated in added umber with four pairs of aquatic...
Estimate: £300 - £500
LOT 24
A fragmentary Cypriot terracotta worshipper figure, wearing necklaces and holding a phiale, the...
Estimate: £700 - £900
LOT 25
A limestone head of a woman, the himation partially covering her parted and clearly delineated...
Estimate: £500 - £800
LOT 26
An Iberian carved limestone head of a female, 5th-1st century B.C., with Hellenistic-style face,...
Estimate: £2,000 - £4,000
LOT 27
A polished mottled dark green jade axe from the Neolithic period, 12cm. long Provenance: Private...
Estimate: £200 - £300
LOT 29
Grey fossil stone egg and four fossil ammonites (5) Provenance: Harold James Strickland Taylor...
Estimate: £80 - £100
LOT 30
A miscellaneous group of artefacts and fragments, including Palaeolithic flint cores and flakes,...
Estimate: £300 - £500
LOT 31
A group of five Indus Valley copper idols, India, 4th Millenium BC, mounted together, largest 20...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
LOT 32
A Jemdet Nasr grey stone engraved stamp seal, with pierced lug, circa 3rd Millennium B.C., 3cm diam
Estimate: £200 - £300
LOT 33
A bronze socketed sickle, Late Bronze Age, circa 1200-800 B.C., with hollow shaft, 18cm high and...
Estimate: £500 - £700
LOT 34
A heavy Bronze Age bronze short sword with leaf-shaped blade and pronounced midrib, cylindrical...
Estimate: £500 - £700
LOT 35
Two Iranian small buff pottery vessels with carinated shoulder and everted rim, the shoulder...
Estimate: £200 - £300
LOT 36
A Cypriot buff pottery Bichrome Ware amphora Cypro-Archaic, 750-475 B.C. The cylindrical neck...
Estimate: £400 - £600
LOT 37
An Achaemenid shallow tinned bronze bowl with rosette in the tondo, circa 5th-4th Century B.C.,...
Estimate: £500 - £800
LOT 38
A Roman pale green glass beaker on a folded ring base, with wheel-abraded bands below the rim,...
Estimate: £100 - £150
LOT 39
A Roman pale blue glass long fusiform unguentarium, 20.2 cm high; a pale green glass vase with...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
LOT 40
An iridescent glass bowl/lid, Roman or later, 7.2cm diam, 2.8cm high Provenance: Private UK...
Estimate: £120 - £180
LOT 41
A group of pottery vessels, Circa 9th -3rd Century B.C. Including a Cypriot Iron Age vessel, set...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
LOT 42
Eight Syrian-Palestinian pottery oil lamps, Circa 5th-7th Century A.D, Six with extended...
Estimate: £300 - £500
LOT 43
A group of 11 Roman and Greek bronze coins (11) Provenance: Private London collection formed in...
Estimate: £80 - £120
LOT 44
A group of Roman to Byzantine bronze coins Provenance: Harold James Strickland Taylor (1922-2016)
Estimate: £300 - £500
LOT 45
A Byzantine Empire Romanus IV Diogenes with Eudocia (1068-1071AD) gold nomisma, Constantinople...
Estimate: £150 - £200
LOT 46
A Sasanian silver and gilt coin drachim of Khusru II, 591-62AD ,YEAR 36 / 626 AD, 4 grams...
Estimate: £150 - £200
LOT 47
An alabaster jar, of baluster form, with wide everted rim, 15.2 cm high
Estimate: £300 - £400
LOT 48
A small Roman marble female head, wearing a diadem, circa 2nd Century A.D., mounted, 4.8cm high...
Estimate: £150 - £200
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