Sothebys: FINE ORIENTAL MINIATURES AND MANUSCRIPTS, VANASUR,

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 10, 1974 - December 10, 1974

Page Size: 472 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
402		A BOAR CHASING A LION who escapes up a tree	Qajar	c. 1840	GBP -	45.00
403		HALF-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF A GIRL RICHLY BEJEWELLED with pearls on her headress and light green costume	Qajar	c. 1840	GBP -	4,000.00
404		HALF-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF A GIRL HOLDING A POSY OF FLOWERS in her hands	Qajar	c. 1840	GBP -	3,500.00
405		A PRINCE shooting an arrow at a lion, a maiden sits at the prince's side as two attendants offer them refreshments	Qajar		GBP -	32.00
406		KHUSRAW spies Shirin bathing	Qajar		GBP -	55.00
407		A PRINCE playing polo with his mistress and attendants	Qajar		GBP -	60.00
408		A PRINCE AND HIS LADY in a garden	Qajar		GBP -	40.00
409		A PRINCESS HOLDING AN APPLE and axe seated against a bolster	Qajar		GBP -	750.00
410		A PRINCESS WEARING A TRANSPARENT GREEN BLOUSE and striped pantaloons seated against a bolster while holding an axe and apple	Qajar		GBP -	450.00
411		A spray of pink roses and other flowers	Qajar	c. 1860	GBP -	190.00
412		PORTRAIT OF A QAJAR MINISTER Sahami al-Mulk in court dress standing within a chamber	Qajar		GBP -	1,400.00
413	E. SANGLBOEUF	Thirty-five scenes in Persia	[Persia]	1866	GBP -	190.00
414	LACQUER PANELS	A pair of Persian painted lacquer panels of a prince and his lady with their courtiers feasting while watching musicians and dancing girls performing	Qajar		GBP -	500.00
415		A PERSIAN PAINTED LACQUER PANEL	Qajar	c. 1840	GBP -	450.00
416		LACQUER BOOKCOVER	Persia		GBP -	20.00
417		PEN-BOX	[Persia]	1906 A.D.	GBP -	500.00
418		PEN-BOX	Persia		GBP -	220.00
419		PEN-BOX	Persia		GBP -	100.00
420		PERSIAN LACQUER MIRROR CASE	Qajar		GBP -	2,200.00
421		QUR'AN LEAF IN KUFIC SCRIPT			GBP -	70.00
422		A FRAGMENT OF A QUR'AN LEAF written in kufic script			GBP -	40.00
423		NASTA'LIQ CALLIGRAPHY	Persia		GBP -	180.00
424		NASTA'LIQ CALLIGRAPHY	Persia		GBP -	160.00
425		NASTA'LIQ CALLIGRAPHY	Shiraz		GBP -	35.00
426		Persian manuscript leaves	Shiraz	c. 1580	GBP -	45.00
427		A FIRMAN with five lines of text in black nastdliq illuminated with arabesques and birds in gold	[Persia]	1277/1860	GBP -	200.00
428		A DOUBLE PAGE ILLUMINATED HEADING to a manuscript of Sa'di's Kulliyat with panels and floral decoration in colours and gold			GBP -	90.00
429		A DERVISH ACCIDENTALLY DROPPING A BOWL	Isfahan		GBP -	100.00
430		A MAN restraining a lion with a rope tied around his neck			GBP -	80.00
431		CALLIGRAPHY		1531	GBP -	150.00
432		CALLIGRAPHY			GBP -	110.00
433		QUR'AN			GBP -	110.00
434	HAFIZ DIWAN	PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER		dated 1262/1846	GBP -	200.00
435		A PORTRAIT OF A TURKISH MULLAH gesticulating with his right hand	Turkish		GBP -	105.00
436		A DOG ON A LEAD HELD BY A PRINCE	Turkish		GBP -	32.00
437		FOUR RIDERS ON HORSEBACK FIGHTING	Provincial Persian (Turkish)		GBP -	24.00
438		ISFANDIYAR SLAYING THE SIMURGH WITH HIS SWORD			GBP -	140.00
439		THREE MAIDENS ARRIVING ON AN ELEPHANT AT THE HOUSE OF A PRINCE	Shiraz	c. 1475	GBP -	180.00
440		Two DUCKS IN FLIGHT CARRYING A TORTOISE towards a gilded hillock	Bukhara	c. 1560	GBP -	130.00
441		A MAN IN A WALLED GARDEN reading poetry to a girl leaning against a small tree holding an orange	Bukhara	c. 1570	GBP -	110.00
442		A CAVALRY ENGAGEMENT ON THE SIDE OF A HILL	Khurasan	c. 1580	GBP -	420.00
443		YUSUF APPEARING BEFORE ZULAYKHA as she sits on a blue hillock with her attendants peeling oranges	Khurusan	c. 1580	GBP -	200.00
444		YUSUF ENTHRONED IN A GARDEN	Khurasan	c. 1580	GBP -	130.00
445		ZULAYKHA ARRIVING AS A BRIDE	Khurasan	c. 1580	GBP -	480.00
446		YUSUF GREETING FOUR VISITORS in the doorway of his house	Khurasan	c. 1580	GBP -	170.00
447		A HOLY MAN GREETS A KING ARRIVING ON HORSEBACK with two attendants	Isfahan		GBP -	400.00
448		ZAL SEATED IN THE SIMURGH'S NEST in a tree is visited by his father Sam who arrives with his horse to reclaim his son	Isfahan		GBP -	70.00
449		THREE GROOMS STANDING BENEATH A TREE replacing a shoe on a horse	Isfahan		GBP -	130.00
450		A KING ON HORSEBACK WITH HIS ATTENDANTS WATCHING A POLO GAME	Persian		GBP -	45.00
451		Three manuscript leaves illustrated with Persian scenes including the fire ordeal of Siyawush	Persian		GBP -	75.00
452		THE CAESARIAN BIRTH OF RUSTAM	Turkman	c. 1460-80	GBP -	360.00
453		RUSTAM KILLING the white elephant with a ram-headed club upon a pink hillside	Shiraz	c. 1540	GBP -	160.00
454		THE MURDER OF SIYAWUS	Shiraz	c. 1540	GBP -	140.00
455		A PORTRAIT OF KHUSRAW PRESENTED TO SHIRIN by a courtier	Shiraz		GBP -	160.00
456		GRIGOR OF TATHEV (1340-1410)	Armenia		GBP -	200.00
457		THREE MAGICAL SCROLLS	Ethiopia		GBP -	12.00
458		THREE MAGICAL SCROLLS containing prayers against devils Mastema aganent (Drowner of Devils)	Ethiopia		GBP -	12.00
459		KALPASUTRA	[Western India]	1577/1520 A.D	GBP -	240.00
460	YUSUF AND ZULAYKHA	JAMI		c. 1600	GBP -	90.00
461		A GENEALOGY of the prophet Muhammad			GBP -	60.00
462		BAKI. POEMS (MAINLY GHAZALS)	Turkey		GBP -	60.00
463		A PRAYER BOOK	Turkey		GBP -	150.00
464		QUR'AN LEAVES			GBP -	120.00
465		NIZAMI	Shiraz	c. 1440	GBP -	380.00
466		QUR'AN	Persian		GBP -	200.00
467		QUR'AN	[Persia]	1080 A.H./1669 A.D.	GBP -	120.00
468		JAMI	Persia		GBP -	140.00
469		A CALENDAR			GBP -	48.00
470		HAFIZ	[Persia]	1146/1733-4	GBP -	50.00
471	SHAHRAT-AFZA	(AN ANONYMOUS PERSIAN TRANSLATION OF THE KOKASASTRA-AN INDIAN WORK ON LOVE)	[Qajar]	1216/1800	GBP -	2,600.00
472		A Qur'an section			GBP -	25.00
473		QUR'AN	India		GBP -	2,600.00

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