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ISLAMIC and INDIAN ART Tuesday 6 October 2015 ISLAMIC AND INDIAN ART Tuesday 6 October 2015 ISLAMIC AND INDIAN ART Tuesday 6 October 2015 at 2pm 101 New Bond Street, London VIEWING Live online bidding is available CUSTOMER SERVICES ILLUSTRATIONS Sunday 27 September for this sale Monday to Friday 08.30 to 18.00 Front cover: lot 102 (detail) 11.00-15.00 Please email [email protected] +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Back cover: lot 123 Monday 28 September with ‘live bidding’ in the subject Inside front cover: lot 48 (detail) 09.00-16.30 line 48 hours before the auction As a courtesy to intending Inside back cover: lot 119 (detail) Tuesday 29 September to register for this service bidders, Bonhams will provide a 9.00-16.30 written Indication of the physical Wednesday 30 September Please note: condition of lots in this sale if a IMPORTANT INFORMATION 09.00-16.30 Telephone bidding is available only request is received up to 24 In February 2014 the United Thursday 1 October on lots where the lower end hours before the auction starts. States Government 09.00-16.30 estimate is at £1000 or above. This written Indication is issued announced the intention to Friday 2 October subject to Clause 3 of the Notice ban the import of any ivory 09.00-16.30 ENQUIRIES to Bidders. into the USA. Lots Saturday 3 October Oliver White containing ivory are 11.00-15.00 (Head of Department) indicated by the symbol Ф Sunday 4 October +44 207 468 8303 printed beside the Lot 11.00-15.00 [email protected] number in this catalogue. Monday 5 October 09.00-16.30 Matthew Thomas +44 207 468 8270 [email protected] SALE NUMBER 22816 Rukmani Kumari Rathore +44 207 468 8203 CATALOGUE [email protected] £30.00 Alice Bailey (Consultant) BIDS [email protected] +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax To bid via the internet please visit bonhams.com Please note that bids should be submitted no later than 4pm on the day prior to the sale. New bidders must also provide proof of identity when submitting bids. Failure to do this may result in your bid not being processed. Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Co-Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Andrew McKenzie, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Antony Bennett, Matthew Bradbury, Mike Neill, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Lucinda Bredin, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Peter Rees, Iain Rushbrook, John Sandon, Matthew Girling CEO, Andrew Currie, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, Tim Schofield, Veronique Scorer, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Group Vice Chairman, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Leslie, James Stratton, Roger Tappin, Ralph Taylor, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Geoffrey Davies, Jonathan Horwich, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, Asaph Hyman, Shahin Virani, David Williams, James Knight, Caroline Oliphant, Charles Lanning, Gordon McFarlan, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Hugh Watchorn. Central Middlesex Hospital SALE Park Royal INFORMATION Coronation Road W Bonhams, e d s P t Park Royal a e a rn r o A k R v e R e s A4 o 0 a y Park a h l C Royal Western Ave A40 R o 0 Station a 0 d Acton 0 4 Cemetery North A Acton d Station a o R a i r o t c i V Bids Collection and Storage Handling and storage Important Notice +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 after sale West chargesActon A surchargeHorn Lane of 2% is applicable +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Lots marked with ‘W” including StationTransfer and storage charges when using Mastercard, Visa [email protected] carpets & rugs will be for ‘W’ items will commence and overseas debit cards. www.bonhams.com transferred to the warehouse on Tuesday 27 October 2015 from 9am Wednesday 7 and will be applicable for each The following symbol is used to Payments October 2015 working day. denote that VAT is due on the Buyers and will be available hammer price and buyer’s +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 for collection from 9:30am The charges levied by Bonhams premium +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Thursday 8 October 2015. are as follows: † VAT 20% on hammer price Sellers All other sold lots will remain in All lots marked with W and buyer’s premium Payment of sale proceeds Bonhams New Bond Street +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Collections department until Transfer per lot £35.00 * VAT on imported items at a +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax 5:30pm Tuesday 20 October Daily storage per lot £3.60 preferential rate of 5% on 2015. Lots not collected by then hammer price and the prevailing Valuations, taxation and will be removed to Bonhams All other objects rate on buyer’s premium heritage warehouse and will be available +44 (0) 20 7468 8340 for collection from 9:30am Transfer per lot £20.00 W These lots will be removed to +44 (0) 20 7468 5860 fax Thursday 22 October 2015. Daily storage per lot £1.90 Bonhams Park Royal after the [email protected] These lots will also be subject sale. Please read the sale to transfer and storage charges All the above charges are information page for more Catalogue subscriptions from Tuesday 27 October 2015 exclusive of VAT. details. To obtain any Bonhams catalogue or Lots may be released from Payment in advance VAT refunds on exports from to take out an annual Bonhams warehouse on Tel: +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 the EU subscription: production of the Collection to ascertain amount due by: To submit a claim for refund of Subscriptions Department Order obtained from cashiers cash, cheque with banker’s VAT HMRC require lots to be +44 (0) 1666 502200 office at Bonhams, Knightsbridge card, credit card, or exported from the EU within +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax or New Bond Street and a form traveller’s cheque. strict deadlines. [email protected] of photographic ID. If a third party is collecting on behalf of the Payment at time of collection For lots on which Import VAT Shipping client, the client must provide By credit card / debit card has been charged; marked in For information and estimates Bonhams with written authority the catalogue with a * or Ω, lots on domestic and international prior to collection. The third party must be exported within 30 shipping as well as export must present a photographic days of Bonhams’ receipt of licenses please contact Bonhams form of ID when collecting. payment and within 3 months of Shipping Department on: the sale date. For all other lots +44 (0) 20 8963 2849 export must take place within 3 +44 (0) 20 8963 2850 months of the sale date. +44 (0) 20 7629 9673 fax [email protected] For further VAT information please contact: [email protected] IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL BUYERS Condition Condition is not stated in the catalogue. The absence of such reference does not imply that the lot is in good condition or free from faults. Prospective buyers should satisfy themselves by inspection as to the condition of each lot. Condition reports can, however, be provided on request, but are for general guidance only and any such report is, of necessity, subjective. 1 A QUR’AN LEAF WRITTEN IN LARGE BOLD KUFIC SCRIPT ON VELLUM ABBASID, MID-9TH CENTURY Arabic manuscript on vellum, 5 lines to the page written in large kufic script in brown ink with diacritics and vowel points in red and green, verses marked with a trefoil of three dots in gold, circular marginal ornament added at a later date 203 x 306 mm. £8,000 - 12,000 €11,000 - 16,000 US$12,000 - 19,000 Text: sura VII, al-A’raf, The Heights, part of verse 88 to part of verse 89. The script and verse markers are very similar to a fragmentary folio in the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art: see Francois Deroche, The Abbasid Tradition, Oxford 1992, p. 77, cat. no. 26, accession no. KFQ35. Also compare the script with M.S. R.11 in the Topkapi Palace Library, Istanbul: see F. Karatay, Topkapi Sarayi Muzesi Kutuphanesi. Arapca yazmalar katalogu, I, Istanbul, 1962. 4 | BONHAMS 2 A QUR’AN LEAF WRITTEN IN KUFIC SCRIPT ON VELLUM ABBASID, 9TH-10TH CENTURY Arabic manuscript on vellum, 16 lines to the page written in kufic script in brown ink with diacritics and vowel points in red, verses marked by a pyramidal formation of six dots in gold, sura heading in gold followed by a decorative band of alternating circles and diamonds in gold and the remains of a marginal palmette at the right- hand end, waterstaining and creasing, in mount 203 x 260 mm. £4,000 - 6,000 €5,500 - 8,200 US$6,200 - 9,300 Text (recto only): sura LXXI, Nuh, Noah, part of verse 23 to the last verse (28), and sura LXXII, al-Jinn, The Spirits, verses 1 to 4. The script and decorative band between the chapters are very similar to a folio in the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art: see Francois Deroche, The Abbasid Tradition, Oxford 1992, pp. 62-63, cat. no. 15, accession no. KFQ19. ISLAMIC AND INDIAN ART | 5 3 4 3 • 4 • AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN SECTION AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN PERSIA, LATE 16TH CENTURY OTTOMAN TURKEY, SECOND HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY Arabic manuscript on paper, 24 leaves, 13 lines to the page, first Arabic manuscript on cream-coloured paper, 301 leaves, last three and thirteenth lines written in blue in larger naskhi script, seventh line folios (including one blank) later replacements, 15 lines to the page written in gold in naskhi script, remainder of text in smaller naskhi written in naskhi script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in black and red, red and black, gold dots between verses, inner margins ruled in blue inner margins ruled in colours and gold, illuminated circular devices and gold, trimmed with loss of most of the catchwords, sura headings in wide margins, catchwords, waterstaining mostly confined to outer written in thuluth script in gold, one illuminated frontispiece in two margins but occasionally affecting text, contemporary brown leather shades of gold, blue and some other colours, waterstaining affecting with stamped central cartouche with Chinese-style decoration, small areas of illumination, some staining and crude repairs, brown marbled endpapers, front cover detached morocco gilt with stamped central medallions decorated with floral 237 x 165 mm.
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