Ader: Archaeology & Arts of Islam and India, 172370, PARIS

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 18, 2025 - December 18, 2025

Page Size: 118 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
130		Dragon attacked by two lions	Iran, signed Mir Hadi	and dated 1769	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
131		Falconer prince	Iran	early 19th century	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,170.00
132		Poppies and rosehips	Iran, probably 18th century		EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 1,170.00
133		Study of poppies	Iran	18th century, attributable to Mohammad Baqir	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,820.00
134		Two floral compositions	Iran	late 19th - early 20th century	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 416.00
135		Embracing couple	Iran qajar, attributable to Abo'l Hassan Ghaffari (Sani-ol Molk)	, dated 1844	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 2,080.00
136		Absorbed courtesan	Iran qajar	19th century	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
137		Reclining man with cat	Iran qajar	19th century	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	EUR 1,690.00
138		Two portraits of women	Iran qajar	19th century	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
139		Presumed portrait of Shah Tahmasp	Iran qajar	19th century	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 494.00
140		Seated couple	Iran	early 20th century	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 780.00
141		Two portraits	Iran qajar,	dated 1842	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
142		The setar player	Iran,	20th century	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 364.00
143		Two portraits	Iran qajar,	circa 1900	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 325.00
144		Portrait of a mullah	Iran qajar	early 20th century	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
145		Portrait of a European woman	Iran	late 19th - early 20th century	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
146		Composition gol-o-bolbol	Iran	early 20th century	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 416.00
147		Woman at work and traveling salesman	Iran qajar	late 19th - early 20th century	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 390.00
148		Ali and his children	Iran qajar	early 20th century	EUR 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
149		Portrait of Nasser Ed-Din Shah Qajar	Iran	early 20th century, after an original by Abo'l Hassan Ghaffari III (Yahya)	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 520.00
150		Mohammad Baqer Majlesi (d. 1698), Zad al Ma'ad	Iran qajar, signed Abo'l Qasem	1831	EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
151		Qur'an section	Iran	19th century	EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
152		Qur'an	Iran qajar	1836	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
153	AL-QAZWINI,	Book of the Wonders of Creation Aja'ib al-Makhluqat, Ghara'ib al-Mu'allaqat, lithographed	Iran qajar, Tehran, Mohammad Hossein (publisher)	1866	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,560.00
154		Religious calligraphic composition	Safavid Iran, signed Mohammad Hadi	1706	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	EUR 650.00

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