Arts of the Islamic World & India

A large Ottoman silk and metal-thread embroidered textile panel with 'Allah', Turkey, 19th/20th century

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Estimate

5,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

the black silk ground embroidered with gilt-metal threads with a central roundel featuring Allah in thuluth, encircled by a calligraphic band on green silk, radiating rays, and red calligraphic roundels in each corner, mounted on a stretcher

199 by 206cm.

inscriptions

Within the roundel: Allah jalla jalalahu, 'God, exalted be His glory'

In the band: Qur'an, surah al-fath, middle of verse 4 to end of verse 5, followed by the phrase that it is in the hand of Sultan Mahmud II (r.1808-39)

In the four roundels: al-rahman/ al-rahim/ al-malik / al-quddus, 'The Most Compassionate. The Most Merciful. The King. The Holy One'

For closely comparable embroidered textiles, see Sotheby's, London, 25 April 2012, lot 442, and 22 April 2015, lot 82.

Ibn Battuta (d.1377), Tuhfat an-Nuzzar fi ghara'ib al-amsar wa 'aja'ib asfar, a volume from The Travels, North Africa, 17th century

Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Abu Mansur Mawhub ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Khadr al-Jawaliqi (d.1144 AD), Kitab takmilat islah ma taghlat fihi al-'amma, on Arabic grammar, Near East, circa 1300 AD

Estimate: 40,000 - 60,000 GBP

An extremely rare illustrated manuscript of the Ka'banameh (A history of the Ka'ba) by Abdulrahman Gubari (d.1566), signed by Ahmad [...] al-Khatib, Kaposvár, Hungary, dated Dhu'l-Hijjah 1080 AH/April-May 1670 AD

Estimate: 120,000 - 180,000 GBP

An illuminated leaf from a Gulistan of Sa’di, the borders attributed to Sultan Muhammad, Persia, Tabriz, Safavid, circa 1525-40

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A pair of repoussé gold bracelets, Syria, 11th-12th century

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An illustrated and illuminated leaf from a manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnameh (The Freer Shahnameh): Iskandar testing the Indian physician, Persia or Baghdad, Ilkhanid, circa 1300-40

Estimate: 15,000 - 25,000 GBP

A large illuminated Qur'an, Persia, Shiraz, Safavid, 16th century

Estimate: 120,000 - 180,000 GBP

An illuminated leaf from a Gulistan of Sa’di, the borders attributed to Sultan Muhammad, Persia, Tabriz, Safavid, circa 1525-40

Estimate: 20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Nasih ibn Zafar al-Jurbadqani, Tarjamah Yamini 'Utbi (on the history of Ghaznavid rulers Sebuktigin and Mahmud of Ghazni), signed by Muhammad ibn Kamray ibn Muhammad ibn Abu'l-Mukhtar, Persia, dated 11 Rajab 711 AH/30 November 1311 AD

Estimate: 20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Abu Muhammad Makki ibn Abi Talib al-Qaysi al-Qayrawani al-Andalusi al-Qurtubi, al-kashf 'an wujuh al-qira'at al-sab' wa 'ilaliha wa hijajiha ('Unveiling the Aspects of the Seven Recitations'), Near East, circa 1100 AD

Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 GBP