THE SWEET SELLERS, ATTRIBUTED TO BISHAN SINGH, NORTH INDIA, AMRITSAR OR LAHORE, CIRCA 1860-1870 Gouache on paper with use of gold, blue margin rules. A passerby stopping at a sweet seller’s stall, the sweet [...]
ILLUMINATED OTTOMAN QUR’AN SIGNED BY MUHAMMAD HILMI Ottoman Empire Dated: 1223 A.H. / 1807 C.E. Dimensions: 17×12 cm. Arabic manuscript on paper, written in naskh script in soot ink, inner margins ruled with [...]
MUGHAL WARRIORS PREPARING FOR A BATTLE IN THE STYLE OF RAM SAHAI AND CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED MIR ALI HERAVI (D. 1544) Mughal Empire, Faizabad Circa 1770 Miniature painting folio 24.4 x 34.5 cm, Calligraphy on the [...]
Qur’an Recitation Diploma with a Pedigree Line Stretching back to Prophet Muhammad OTTOMAN QUR’AN RECITATION (QIRA‘AT) DIPLOMA GRANTED AND COPIED BY HAFIZ MUHAMMAD RASHID, THE IMAM OF SULTAN ABDULHAMID II [...]
PRINCE AND PRINCESS CELEBRATING HOLI Painting: Mughal India, Awadh, Late 18th Century Calligraphy (on the back): Mughal India, 17th century, with inscribed attribution to Abd al-Rashid Daylami (active between [...]
Zand Persia Second half of the 18th Century Circle of Zand court artist Abu’l Hasan Ghaffari Mustawfi Kashani (d. 1798, active between 1781-1794). Dimensions: 22 x 37 cm (unframed), 36 x 49.5 cm (framed). Gouache [...]
Delhi, India Circa 1820. Dimensions: 21 x 14 cm. Gouache on paper. The Mughal emperor Jahangir (r. 1605-1627) enthroned under a canopy on terrace, receiving four courtiers standing before him, an attendant waving a [...]
India, Rajasthan, Kota. Circa 1760 Dimensions: 40 x 26 cm. Gouache on paper, yellow panel at top with nagari text, red border. Four male acrobats attired in shorts performing around a pole with a female acrobat [...]
Qajar Persia Signed: Ismail bin Visal Dated: 1278 A.H. / 1861 C.E. Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.5 cm. Manuscript on paper, 240 leaves, 2 fly leaves, 19 lines to page, opening with three consequent double pages with the [...]
Mughal India. Circa 1740. Gouache on paper heightened with gold. Dimensions: 20.3 x 16.3 cm. This exquisite painting is the visual representation of a musical mode (raga) from classical Indian music. It is a [...]
