Islamic & Indian Art

16 Oct 2003, starting at 10:30 BST .

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A mounted elderly man pulling a spear from his side Persia, 17th/18th Century

Qur’an, copied by Hafiz 'Ali al-Thana'i, a student of the Ottoman calligrapher Selim al-Salim Ottoman, 19th Century

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Jacob (S. S.)

A lete Safavid ivory hilted Dagger Kard Persia, 18th Century

Mourners gather around an elderly man who appears to have died in his sleep Ottoman Turkey or Northern Persia, 16th Century

Portrait of a standing youth carrying a bag on his shoulder, he wears a fur-trimmed mauve velvet cap Isfahan, 17th Century

Fakhr al-Din Muhammad Tarih ibn `Ali al-Najafi. Majma` al-bahrain wa-matla` al-nayirain, a large lexical and syntactical compilation on the text of the Qur’an and Hadith, arranged alphabetically and derived from the major contemporary sources, copied by Ibn Kalb`ali Ibrahim al-Khwansari Iraq or Persia, AH 1244/ AD 1828

A small illuminated Qajar Qur’an, copied by Muhammad Qasim al-Isfahani Persia probably Isfahan, dated AH 1223/ AD 1808,

A pair of sandstone Architectural Panels Northern India, 18th/19th century

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