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Islamic and Indian Art

Auction 17854
London, New Bond Street
7 Oct 2010, starting at 10:30 BST.
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Auction highlights

An Indian gem-set gold finial in the form of a tiger's head from the throne of Tipu Sultan, circa 1790
Sold for £434,400 inc. premium
An important gem-set gold Finial in the form of a Tiger's Head from the throne of Tipu Sultan (1750-99 ...
An important and previously unrecorded, contemporary eye-witness account of the Siege of Seringapatam and the death of Tipu Sultan, written by Captain Benjamin Sydenham (1777-1828) to George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, K.B., (1737–1806), written at Seringapatam on the 25th May 1799
Sold for £86,400 inc. premium
An important and previously unrecorded, contemporary eye-witness account of the Siege of Seringapatam and the death of Tipu Sultan, written ...
A fine large Seljuk gilt bronze Basin Persia, 12th Century
Sold for £40,800 inc. premium
A fine large Seljuk parcel-gilt bronze Basin Persia, 12th Century
A fine gold bezoar-stone Holder India, 18th Century
Sold for £38,400 inc. premium
A fine gold bezoar-stone Holder India, probably Gujarat, 18th Century

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Eight leaves from a Qur'an Persia, probably Shiraz, late 16th Century
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Eight leaves from a Qur'an Persia, probably Shiraz, late 16th Century
Sold for £1,200 inc. premium
An illustrated manuscript leaf depicting Sufi dancers Shiraz, second half of the 16th Century
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An illustrated leaf from a manuscript of Sultan Husain ibn Mansur Bayqara's Majalis al-'Ushaq (Assemblies of Lovers, i.e. Lives of Saints), depicting whirling sufis Safavid ...
Sold for £9,000 inc. premium
An illustrated leaf from a manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnama, attributed to Mu'in Mussavir Persia, mid-17th Century
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An illustrated leaf from a dispersed manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnama, depicting Gushtasp killing the rhinoceros, attributed to Mu'in Musavvir Isfahan, circa 1667
Sold for £5,400 inc. premium
Sa'di, Bustan, poetry Persia, dated AH 966/AD 1558
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Sa'di, Bustan, poetry Persia, dated AH 966/AD 1558
Sold for £4,800 inc. premium
Muhammad bin Mahmud bin Ahmad al-'Ayni, Kitab al-'Inayah fi sharh al-Hidayah, a treatise on jurisprudence, vols. II to IV only Ottoman Turkey, dated AH 979/AD 1571-72
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Muhammad bin Mahmud bin Ahmad al-'Ayni, Kitab al-'Inayah fi sharh al-Hidayah, a treatise on jurisprudence, vols. II to IV only Ottoman Turkey, dated AH 979/AD ...
Estimate:
£1,500 - 2,000
€1,800 - 2,300
US$ 2,300 - 3,000
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