Arts of the Islamic World & India

A large section of a turquoise-glazed funerary stele, Persia, Kashan, 13th century

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

of rectangular form moulded under a turquoise glaze, with raised vertical borders, with calligraphic inscriptions

44.5 by 40.2 cm.

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Ex-collection Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962), Paris

Ex-private collection, Geneva, by 1981

Ex-collection J.P and F. Croisier, Paris, by 1999

Céramiques Islamiques dans les Collections Genevoises, Geneva: Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, 1981, p.57, no.89.

Céramiques du monde musulman: collections de l'Institut du monde arabe et de J.P. et F. Croisier, Paris: Institut du Monde Arabe, 1999, p.120.

inscriptions

Qur'an, surah al-Baqara (II), v.256 (partial)

'Abu'l-Ma'ali b. Abi al-...'

The name of the person to whom the present funerary stele is dedicated is only partially legible. Comparable fragments from funerary steles were sold in these rooms, including a two-panel fragment signed by Yusuf ibn 'Ali [ibn] Muhammad ibn Abi [Tahir], 9 October 2013, lot 16, and a fragment dated 679 AH/1280 AD, 9 April 2014, lot 113.

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

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

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

Estimate: 120,000 - 180,000 GBP

Ibn al-Shatir (d.1375), Nihayat al-su’al fi tashih al-usul, on astronomy, Egypt or Syria, Mamluk, 14th century

Estimate: 150,000 - 250,000 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

A large illuminated Qur'an, ⁠Central Asia, 19th century

Estimate: 15,000 - 20,000 GBP

An impressive Samanid calligraphic bowl, Tashkent, 9th or early 10th century

Estimate: 60,000 - 80,000 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

A manuscript on fortune-telling including Ikhtiyarat al-ayyam (A treatise on hemerology, from the sayings of Ja'far al-Sadiq and the Prophet Daniel), commissioned for Catholic Maronite Khawaja Yusuf ibn Khawaja Antoine Andrea, copied by Gabriel son of Michael Asfour, probably Northern Lebanon, 1 Tammuz (July) 1778 AD

Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 GBP