A small leaf from a Qur'an written in kufic script on vellum Near East or North Africa, 9th-10th Century Arabic manuscript on vellum, 14 lines wr...

A rare Mamluk firman Egypt, dated 23rd Sha'ban 874/25th February 1470 Arabic manuscript on paper, 10 lines (recto) written in naskhi script in bl...

Zakariya bin Muhammad bin Mahmud al-Qazwini, Aja'ib al-makhluqat wa ghara'ib al-mujudat, The Wonders of Creation and Oddities of Existence, with 1...

An illustrated leaf from a manuscript of Nizami's Khamsa, depicting Bahram Gur with the Indian Princess in the black pavilion Persia, probably Sh...

An elegant youth seated in a landscape, holding a pomegranate Persia, the figure 17th century, with 19th Century additions to the background pen ...

Two illuminated pages from a manuscript of Persian poetry Persia, late 16th/early 17th Century Persian manuscript on gold-sprinkled paper, two co...

Two leaves from a manuscript of Persian poetry Persia, late 16th/early 17th Century framed back to back, Persian manuscript on gold-sprinkled pap...

M. B. Dickson and S. C. Welch, The Houghton Shahnameh, in two volumes Cambridge, MA, and London, 1981 2 volumes, edition of 750, 21 colour plates...

A youth reading a poem in a garden Qajar Persia, 19th Century pen and ink with some watercolour on paper, laid down within the illuminated border...

A large lithographed copy of Firdausi's Shahnama, copied by the well-known nasta'liq calligrapher Muhammad Husain 'Imad al-Kuttab, with 41 full-pa...

A prayer book in Arabic, copied by Muhammad, son of Aqa 'Abd al-Husain Kermani, and presented to Farmanfarma Salar Lashgar Qajar Persia, dated Ra...

Noblemen at leisure in a palace interior Iran, signed by Baqa'i, 20th Century painted lacquer on board, signed centre left, framed panel 44 x 60...

Sultan Sanjar encountering the old woman Iran, first half of the 20th Century gouache and gold on bone, in frame the painting 75 x 113 mm.; fram...

The entire text of the Qur'an on a single printed sheet, with printed illumination in colours and gold Probably North Africa, 20th Century the te...

A large slip-painted pottery dish Samarkand, 10th Century of shallow form on a short foot, rising gently to a slightly everted rim, decorated in ...

A Nishapur slip-painted pottery bowl Persia, 10th Century of conical form on a short foot, decorated in manganese on a cream ground with an abstr...

A Nishapur slip-painted pottery bowl Persia, 10th Century of conical form on a short foot, decorated in manganese and green on a cream ground, th...

Three Bamiyan pottery vessels Afghanistan, 13th Century comprising two bowls and a jug, the bowls each of conical form on a short foot, the first...

A large Amol pottery dish Persia, 12th Century of rounded form with everted rim on a short foot, incised and decorated in green and yellow with a...

An Amol pottery dish Persia, 12th Century of rounded form with everted rim on a short foot, incised and decorated in green and yellow with a cent...

A Kashan underglaze-painted pottery jug Persia, 12th Century of squat bulbous form on a short foot, the body rising to a slightly flaring cylindr...

A Kashan silhouette ware pottery jug Persia, 12th Century of globular form on a slightly flaring foot, with conical neck and rounded handle, the ...

A Kashan underglaze-painted pottery bowl Persia, 13th Century of rounded form on a short foot, decorated in cobalt-blue, turquoise, black and man...

A large Sultanabad pottery dish Persia, 14th Century of shallow rounded form with everted rim on a short foot, decorated in cobalt blue, turquois...

A large Sultanabad pottery dish Persia, 14th Century of shallow rounded form with everted rim on a short foot, decorated in cobalt blue, turquois...

A Kashan underglaze-painted pottery jar Persia, 12th Century of piriform on a short foot with four strap handles, decorated in blue and black un...

A Kashan monochrome composite pottery rider on horseback Persia, 12th/ 13th Century the horse standing upright on four legs and a flat base, the ...

A Kashan lustre pottery ewer Persia, 12th/ 13th Century the body of cylindrical gadrooned form with flat shoulder on a slightly flaring foot, the...

A Kashan lustre pottery bowl Persia, 12th/ 13th Century of conical form on a short vertical foot, decorated in golden brown lustre on a cream gro...

Three Byzantine sgraffiato pottery vessels Eastern Mediterranean, 12th Century comprising a splashware chalice of squat form on a long splayed fo...

Two minai pottery fragments depicting a horse and camel Persia, 12th/ 13th Century each of irregular form, decorated overglaze in polychrome on a...

A Khorasan bronze mace head Persia, 12th Century of cylindrical form with eight flanges and a splayed end with an applied ring, terminating in a ...

A Khorasan bronze oil lamp Persia, 12th Century the globular body with two palmette motif handles in relief on a flared foot with pierced openwor...

A Khorasan silver-inlaid bronze dish Persia, 12th/ 13th Century of circular form with tapering sides and flattened rim, engraved and inlaid in si...

An Ilkhanid engraved brass casket Persia, 13th/ 14th Century of rectangular form on four feet, the hinged lid with sloped sides, foliate hinges a...

An Ayyubid tinned-copper magic bowl Egypt or Syria, 13th/ 14th Century of flaring conical form on a short foot, engraved to the interior with ins...

A zoomorphic glass vessel Persia or Syria, 7th/ 8th Century of pale green glass in the form of a quadruped surmounted by a double balsarium with ...

A zoomorphic glass vessel Persia or Syria, 7th/ 8th Century of purple glass and globular form with flaring neck forming the body of a quadruped, ...

A glass jar probably Syria, 7th-8th Century of green glass and globular form with a flaring neck and applied base, the body decorated with a row...

An Abbasid millefiori glass bowl circa 8th/9th Century of deep oval form on a short foot 9 cm. long Footnotes: Provenance Property from a Prince...

A group of cut-glass vessels Egypt, Syria and Persia, 9th/ 10th Century comprising ten cut-glass vessels, comprising: a miniature dark greenish-b...

A small cut glass cup Syria or Egypt, 10th Century of pale yellow glass and stemmed flaring form with everted rim on a splayed foot, decorated to...

A Fatimid cut glass bottle Egypt or Syria, 9th/ 10th Century of cylindrical form on a flat base, the flat shoulder with narrow neck, cut with geo...

A Fatimid glass molar flask and miniature pot Egypt or Syria, 10th Century the molar flask of turquoise glass with waisted flaring neck and four ...

A glass sprinkler (qumqum) Egypt or Syria, 12th/ 13th Century of pale yellow glass and flattened globular form with kick foot and narrow cylindri...

A Mamluk glass vessel Egypt or Syria, 13th/ 14th Century of squat globular form with a raised rim, the manganese glass decorated in applied whit...

An opaque turquoise glass jug Persia or Egypt, 11th/ 12th Century of compressed globular form on short splayed foot with cylindrical neck and str...

A glass bottle probably Persia, 4th/ 5th Century of light blue glass, piriform with flaring neck on a vermicular foot, decorated in cobalt blue a...

A green glass ewer Persia, 9th-11th Century of piriform on a flat base with slight kick to centre, with simple handle surmounted by a thumb rest,...

A mould-blown blue glass flask fragment Persia, 11th/ 12th Century of blue glass and piriform with cylindrical neck, raised bands to the rim, sho...

Four steel Flint Strikers Persia, 17th-18th Century swan-necked, with terminals in the form of a bird, a dragons, a lion and an arabesque, with o...

A Safavid lustre pottery vase Persia, 17th Century of globular form with stepped shoulder on a short foot, the short neck with flared mouth, deco...

A rare Safavid oil painting depicting a lady in European dress standing in an interior Persia, probably Isfahan, middle or second half of the 17t...

Mechti Kuli Beg, ambassador of Shah 'Abbas I to the Court of Rudolf II, engraved by Aegidius Sadeler II (d. 1629) after Esaye le Gillon (fl. 1604-...

A Safavid or Damascus underglaze-painted pottery dish Persia or Syria, 16th/ 17th Century of shallow rounded form with everted rim on a short foo...

A group of four Damascus underglaze-painted pottery tiles Syria, 17th Century each of rectangular form and variously decorated in cobalt blue, tu...

A Damascus underglaze-painted pottery tile Syria, 17th/ 18th Century of square form, decorated in cobalt blue, turquoise, and manganese on a whit...

A Damascus pottery vase mounted as a mosque lamp Syria, the vase 17th Century, the mounts 19th Century or later the pottery body of globular form...

An Ottoman steel arm-guard Turkey, 16th Century of typical form, engraved and decorated with rosettes contained within concentric circles, surrou...

A pair of Ottoman silver-mounted gold-damascened steel flint lock pistols Turkey, period of Mahmud II (AH 1223-55/ AD 1808-39) the steel barrels ...