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Lot: 1 Lot: 3 A BRONZE FIGURE OF A GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF AVALOKITESVARA Tibet, SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA Tibet, 16th/17th century The eight 15th century Seated in armed Buddhist deity with padmasana on a double lotus primary hands in namaskara throne, his hands in bhumisparsa mudra, the other hands holding and dhyana mudra, his head with rosary, wheel, lotus, water-pot, urna and usnisa, his ears with bow and arrow and in varada elongated lobes, sealed 8.2cm mudra respectively 29cm high high Provenance: Spink and Son, Provenance: Private Collection, London Gilding worn in places, West Coast, USA, acquired one or two minor knocks and before 1990. dents There are several unusual Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 features to this image. Its proportions are very elongated, particularly the legs, something Lot: 4 which would have been even A GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF more marked when the eight PRAJNAPARAMITA Tibet, 15th missing heads were in position century Seated in padmasana on above the three which now a double lotus throne, her remain. Also the prabha and primary hands in dhyana mudra, base are incised repousse while her other pair raised holding vajra the figure itself is cast. The and a book, sealed with Tibetan obvious explanation for the latter inscription on the plate 9.2cm is that the figure had lost its high Provenance: Spink and Son, original base, and these London. Prajnaparamita as repousse sections were personification of transcendental replacements. Although they intuition and wisdom, is probably appear to be of similar age, they the most popular of the Buddhist show signs of being fixed on female deities. Her wisdom is subsequently, particular visible in represented by the book she the fixing of the prabha. Various holds in her left hand. Gilding losses, including upper heads, worn in places, various knocks, section of prabha and bow, inlay missing billowing robes are possible later Estimate: £6,000.00 - £8,000.00 restorations. Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 Lot: 5 A GILT IRON INKPOT Derge, Lot: 2 Eastern Tibet, 17th/18th century FOUR WOODCUT-PRINTED Of conical form, the profusely THANGKAS Tibet, 18th/19th decorated sides with openwork century Black ink on thin paper, dragon amidst scrolling foliage, three depicting Buddha, the other the stopper in the form of a a Dharmapala in yab-yum with flower-head 7.5cm high Gilding his sakti (4) 800 x 650mm approx worn, minor rusting each Provenance: Inscription on Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 accompanying wrapper carries the name J.C. French, probably acquired in Tibet, 1920-30; Sotheby's, London, 28th June Lot: 6 THREE TSATSA PLAQUES 1955, part of lot 237. Creased Tibet, circa 18th century Moulded and damaged around edges, two terracotta, one depicting three, have been laid on tissue two a single bodhisattva figure 6 Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 x 4.5 x 0.8cm (3) Each with some wear and chips Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

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Lot: 7 A CARVED WOOD FIGURE OF Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 TWO GIRLS Nepal, 17th/18th century Possibly a toy, each wearing large double earrings Lot: 12 and pleated skirts, holding hands "A BRASS FIGURE OF with each other, their other hands SADAKSARI Tibet, 13th/14th in abhaya mudra (one now century, Seated on a double lotus missing) 16cm high Provenance: throne in dhyanasana, his Spink and Son, London Worn, primary hands in namaskara chips, cracks and losses mudra, his upper hands in vitarka Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 mudra, wearing a tall three leaf crown, his eyes with traces of copper and silver inlay 20.5cm Lot: 8 Provenance: Private collection, A BRONZE FIGURE OF A LAMA USA, acquired before 1990. This Tibet, 16th century Seated in figure is a provincial version of a padmasana on a double lotus slightly larger and more refined throne, his right hand in vitarka image of Vairocana in the mudra, his left holding a triratna, Victoria and Albert Museum, wearing brocaded robes, his London. See Rhie and Thurman: head shaven, his eyes with 'Wisdom and Compassion' New copper and silver (?) inlay, York 1991, no.140 damage to sealed 12cm high Surface base and crown, some inlay duellist, slight knocks and dents missing or replaced, surface Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 quite worn and bent 2000 Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00

Lot: 9 A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF Lot: 13 BUDDHA Tibet, 15th/16th A THANG-KA DEPICTING century seated on a double PRAJNAPARAMITA Tibet, 18th lotus throne, his hands in century Pigment and gold on bhumisparsa and dhyana mudra, cloth, Chinese brocade mount, with tightly curled hair and the six-armed goddess seated on elongated earlobes, sealed a lotus with offerings in front, 10.5cm high Face and much of surrounded by figures of Buddha, gilding worn dharmapalas and devotees in a Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 hilly landscape 605 x 415mm (main painting) Provenance: Private Collection, London Water staining and flaking especially Lot: 10 around top, one or two small A CARVED IVORY PLAQUE holes and some creasing. DEPICTING DURGA Nepal, circa Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 17th century The multi-armed goddess depicted slaying the buffalo demon, Mahisa, on a lotus base, a flaming aureole Lot: 14 behind 8 x 7 x 1cm Ochre A GILT BRONZE PRABHA AND patina, some chips and losses, STAND Tibet,15th-17th century worn in places Gilt bronze, the base in the form Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 of an elaborate rectangular lion throne with a cloth draped in the middle, the interior with double vajra plate, containing scrolls and Lot: 11 loose grains, the repousse A GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF A prabha in the form of a lobed LAMA Tibet, 16th century seated arch with central halo roundel, in sattvasana on a double lotus decorated with vigorous pierced throne, with toes protruding from scrolling designs, projecting iron his robes, his hands in elements to fit to base, 46cm dharmacakra mudra, and sword high approx (together) and book supported by a lotus at Provenance: Private Collection, either shoulder, his hair closely London, acquired in the early cropped, sealed underneath 1980s. This base with prabha 11cm high "Gilding somewhat and contents were acquired by worn, various knocks 2000 3000 the vendor thirty years ago as a

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complete ensemble with a bronze Lot: 17 figure of Buddha. Originally it had A THANGKA DEPICTING A been thought that the Buddha MAHASIDDHA Tibet, 17th/18th was much earlier, and therefore century Pigment with gold on did not belong, because a cloth, the elderly bearded figure strikingly similar figure in the seated in padmasana on a Heeramaneck Collection at the cushioned throne with a kalasa in Los Angeles County Museum of his hands, surrounded by fifteen Art, (M.75.4.21), was then dated tiers of diminutive Buddhas 71.5 to the 13th century. Because of x 57cm Rubbed and stained in this, the figure was separated places from its base and subsequently Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 sold at Christies Amsterdam in 1997 (19 November, lot 72). Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Buddha had been reassessed, Lot: 18 and is currently dated 17th A PAINTED WOOD FIGURE OF century, so it seems clear that PADMAPANI Tibet, 13th/14th this base had belonged to its century Standing on a lotus base, accompanying Buddha figure all holding a padma in his left hand, along. This Buddha had been wearing an elaborate crown and sold to a client in the Far East large hoop earrings 30.3cm high who unfortunately cannot now be Losses to base, right hand and traced. Base plate detached and front of crown, various chips part of the contents kept especially around edges, back separately, various dents and panel cracked, some wormholes minor scratches Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 Lot: 19 Lot: 15 A THANG-KA DEPICTING A THANGKA DEPICTING VAJRASATTVA Tibet, 18th AMITABHA BUDDHA Tibet, 19th century Pigment with gold on century Seated on a lotus throne cloth, the Buddhist deity seated decorated with peacocks, his on a lotus throne within a halo, symbol, his hands in dhyana holding a vajra and ghanta in his mudra holding a bowl,flanked by hands, wearing voluminous Padmapani and Vajrapani, robes, large earrings and surrounded by numerous monks elaborate crown 25 x 20.5cm and further forms of Buddha in a Slight discolouration, staining and hilly landscape, Chinese silk flaking surround lined with printed cotton Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 71.5 by 43cm excluding silk surround Creasing and flaking Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 Lot: 20 A PAIR OF WOOD BOOKCOVERS Tibet, circa 14th Lot: 16 century Of rectangular form, each A THANGKA DEPICTING with scrolling pattern carved in VAJRAPANI Tibet, 18th century relief, traces of original painted Pigment on cloth, the three eyed decoration, with beaded border blue bodhisattva with billowing on the exterior, one with central robes, dancing on corpses in a figure of a goose, and remains of circle of fire, a vajra in each painted circle and dot design on hand, a mass of lamas above, the inner surface, each with one figures of other deities, including end carved with further scrolling Mahakala and Kubera below, a 35 x 13.3 x 1.5cm Paintwork hilly landscape behind, five red mostly lost, wear throughout, lantsa letters and a line of early repair to lower section of Tibetan on the reverse 80.5 x panel with goose motif, the other 53cm Flaking, creasing and panel with scratched interior rubbing in places, areas of water surface staining, repaired hole near top Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00

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Lot: 21 Lot: 25 A PAIR OF BRONZE MAKARA A LEATHER AND WOOD HEADS Tibet, 17th century Each CHEST Tibet, 19th century Of with gaping mouth, fangs and rectangular form, with iron scrolling snout, pierced at mouth mounts, the front with opening and at three points polychrome painted embossed around beard, mounted on leather decoration laid on cloth, stands 6.4 x 6 x 7.6cm (2) Minor depicting a pair of Chinese knocks and scratches dragons amidst scrolling foliage, Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 the sides with painted cloth panels 66cm high; 126cm wide; 42cm deep Damage to painted Lot: 22 covering, mostly lost on top of lid A CARVED WOOD TORANA Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Nepal, circa 18th century Of lobed form, the scrolling relief decoration interspersed with nine Lot: 26 bone plaques each carved with a A GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF Buddhist deity, including HEVAJRA WITH HIS CONSORT Maitreya, Manjusri and Tibet, 16th century The multi- Padmapani, modern stand 55.6 x armed, multi-headed deity, 70cm Sections have been clasping Nairatmya in erotic refixed, various chips and losses embrace, holding various Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 attributes in his hands, dancing on a corpse on a lotus throne 23cm high Base ungilded and Lot: 23 probably originally from a A TERRACOTTA JAR WITH A different image, gilding worn in HEAD OF BHAIRAVA Nepal, places, various knocks and 17th/18th century Of bell shaped dents, to base and extremities. form, the fierce head with third Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 eye, skull crown and cobra earrings 66cm high; 50 cm max diam approx Provenance: Spink Lot: 27 and Son, London Apparently A BRONZE FRAGMENT consolidated in places especially DEPICTING A NAGA Nepal, around rim, other chips and 17th/18th century The upper, repairs, face heavily encrusted human portion wearing necklaces with accumulated puja powder and elaborate crown and Estimate: £1,800.00 - £2,200.00 earrings, the lower part in the form of a coiled snake, intertwined with body of another Lot: 24 naga 27.5cm Max length The A POLYCHROME PAINTED nagas are semi-divine beings half WOOD ALTAR TABLE Tibet, human, half snake, which are 19th century The panelled front associated with several religious with images of two citipati, with traditions in South Asia. Their offerings in skull bowls in the origins are deeply embedded in three panels above, similar folk tradition, representing decoration on the right side, immortality and fertility, as well as 89cm high; 81cm wide; 38cm acting as protectors. Losses, deep Top, and left side panels including tail tips, hands and replaced, paintwork obscured by upper section of second figure. smoke deposits Some wear Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

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Lot: 28 Lot: 32 A GHANTA AND VAJRA Tibet, A FRAGMENTARY COPPER 19th century The ghanta (ritual LINGAM COVER Nepal, circa bell) of typical form, decorated in 17th century Of circular stepped relief jewelled swags and convex form, with registers of miniature vajras, the handle in repeated incised lotuses, densely the form of a half vajra, the vajra inscribed in Newari 43cm diam (ritual thunderbolt) with lotus approx Provenance: Private handle and four flames issuing Collection in UK since 1980s. from the mouths of makaras at This roundel is most probably the either end 18cm; 11.5cm upper face of a lingam cover Ghanta repaired at neck, some similar to the example in the wear to each collection of John and Karina Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Stewart, Chicago. See Pratapaditya Pal: 'An Aesthetic Adventure' Chicago 2003, no.42 Lot: 29 Fragmentary condition, dented LOVERS IN THEIR and losses BEDCHAMBER Nepal, circa Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 1700 Gouache with lacquer on card, the couple in erotic embrace in a pavilion at night Lot: 33 175mm square Damaged edges, A FRAGMENTARY COPPER small hole in centre LINGAM COVER Nepal, circa Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 17th century Of circular convex form, incised with seven concentric registers of lotus petals, each containing Lot: 30 inscriptions in Newari, a further A BRONZE FIGURE OF inscription in the centre, around AVALOKITESVARA Western outer edge and on the interior Tibet, 17th century Standing on a 51cm approx diam Provenance: circular lotus base, his primary Private Collection in UK since hands in namaskara mudra, his 1980s. See note to lot 32 other six hands with various Fragmentary condition, dented mudras and attributes, wearing and losses flaring robes, elaborate earrings Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 and jewellery, his remaining three head with cold gilded faces and five leaf crowns, base and back plate sealed, the former with Lot: 34 incised double vajra 27.5cm high A COPPER OFFERING STAND Provenance: Sotheby's London, Tibet, 19th century With lobed 24th November 1986, lot 29 tray, on flared cylindrical stand, (unrelated upper heads since brass foot with repousse cloud removed) Dark brown patina, collar design 8.2cm high; 13.3cm with slight wear in places, upper diam Dull patina, minor knocks group of heads missing Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00

Lot: 31 Lot: 35 A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A BONPO STUPA Tibet, 15th VAJRAPANI Tibet, 16th/17th century Cast bronze, the base of century The fierce deity stepping square section, the sides with to the right on a lotus base, sacred emblems, the bulbous holding a vajra in his raised right element above decorated with hand, his left in vitarka mudra garlands, supporting a tapering (gesture of admonition), wearing tiered superstructure topped with five leaf crown, flared headdress kalasa finial, the base with later and large hoop earrings, a tiger wood seal incised with svastika skin about his waist 16.7cm high emblem 22.5cm high Slightly Dents and holes, especially to worn and knocked, brownish base, heavily encrusted surface deposits to patina from oil lamps Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 Estimate: £5,000.00 - £7,000.00

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Lot: 36 Lot: 40 A PAINTED AND GILDED A COPPER GILT ROUNDEL WOOD BOOKCOVER Tibet, Mongolia, 19th century Copper 13th century Wood panel, carved gilt repousse, decorated with the in relief with three figures seated Kalachakra Mantra, later wood in niches, comprising Vairocana, insert at the back 35cm diam Samantabhadra and Ratnapani, various knocks and dents, gilding each with their symbols and rubbed especially near centre paired animal vehicles below, Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 the niches alternating with further emblems on lotus stands, two upper corners pierced 20 x 70 x 2cm The relatively sparse Lot: 41 A THANG-KA DEPICTING LHA- decoration of this cover throws MO ON A CAMEL Mongolia, 19th particular emphasis on the century Pigment on cloth, the figures themselves, something fiercesome deity wielding a club characteristic of the earliest and skull bowl, mounted 320 x Tibetan bookcovers. For a 260mm Palden Lha-mo is related but probably even earlier, consort of the Dharmapala 11th century, book cover in the Mahakala, and fierce protectress, Norton Simon Museum, see widely worshipped in Tibet and Pratapaditya Pal: Art of the Mongolia. Some creasing and Himalayas and China, New flaking of paint Haven 2003, no.120. Gilding and Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 paint worn in places, especially on the right, some cracks and chips to wood Estimate: £8,000.00 - £12,000.00 Lot: 42 A CARVED AND GILDED WOOD PRABHA Tibet, 14th/15th Lot: 37 century Of arched, slightly concave form, made in two A CARVED WOOD ALTAR sections, the lobed niche flanked ORNAMENT Tibet, 17th century by a pair of makaras with long In the form of a flower, traces of scrolling tails, a figure of Garuda gilding, central figure of above accompanied by a pair of Vasudhara in relief holding a apsarases, lions and vyalas on sheaf of grain, mounted on stand either side below, slate stand 24 7cm diameter Gilding worn, x 23.5 x 3cm approx Slight attachment at back broken cracking, small chips, gilding and Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 pigment worn in places Estimate: £3,000.00 - £4,000.00 Lot: 38 THREE GROUPS OF TSAKLIS Tibet, 19th century Watercolour Lot: 43 A SILVER AND COPPER GAU and ink on paper, depicting Tibet, 19th century Of typical various Buddhist emblems and form, the front decorated with the deities, mounted on card 82 x eight auspicious symbols, a 216mm and smaller (3) Slightly kirtimukha and flaming conch, a smudged, discoloured and blue painted figure of Buddha in creased the opening, twin suspension Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 loops on either side 11.5 x 9.7 x 4cm Minor dents, generally good Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 Lot: 39 A POLYCHROME PAINTED WOOD ORNAMENT DEPICTING A KALASA Tibet, Lot: 44 A COPPER GILT KIRTIMUKHA 19th century Carved in openwork FINIAL Tibet, 18th century From relief, in the form of an a crown, a kirtimukha highlighted overflowing vase with a bouquet with red, green and white of flowers 62cm high Chips and pigment, surmounted by vigorous losses to paintwork, has been re openwork scroll decoration,two varnished medallions, each containing a Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 miniature depicting a lama and Avalokitesvara respectively,

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mounted on slate stand 33.5cm Lot: 49 high including attachment A GILT-BRONZE ORNAMENT projection Losses to inlay and DEPICTING LUNG TA Mongolia, pigment, top finial missing, 18th/19th century The horse deity slightly bent within an openwork roundel, a Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 triratna on his back, supported by scrolling foliage issuing from a lotus base 12.5cm high The Lot: 45 lungta (wind-horse) is thought to A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF represent good fortune and well AVALOKITESVARA Tibet, 15th being as an emblem of the century Standing on a lotus human soul, in a tradition which throne, the eight-armed Buddhist pre-dates Himalayan Buddhism. deity with primary hands in Gilding slightly worn, loose on namaskara mudra, his eleven base, slightly knocked and dented heads arranged in five tiers, Estimate: £3,000.00 - £4,000.00 surrounded by a pointed aureole, sealed with iron base plate 15.8cmhigh Various knocks and Lot: 50 dents, gilding slightly worn, stems TWO COPPER AND BRASS of padmas missing RITUAL VESSELS Tibet, Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 18th/19th century Comprising a kundika (ewer) and kalasa (water pot), the former with gilt lotus Lot: 46 base, scrolling spout and A GILT BRONZE KIRTIMUKHA overhanging rim with repousse PLAQUE Tibet, 19th century With auspicious symbols, the other horns, gaping mouth and bulging similar but without spout 21.5; eyes, a Tibetan letter incised on 19.5cm high (2) Provenance: his left hand 4 x 8.5cm Very Spink and Son Each with various slight wear to gilding, a little small dents etc dented Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00

Lot: 51 Lot: 47 A BRONZE FIGURE OF A BRONZE VAJRA Tibet, 18th PRAJNAPARAMITA Nepal, 17th century With waisted double lotus century Seated in padmasana on handle, the four lightning bolts at a double lotus throne, her either end issuing from makara primary hands in varada mudra heads, square section projection and holding a padma, a book and at either end 12.7cm long Minor rosary in her upper hands, knocks, generally good wearing elaborate jewellery and Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,500.00 crown 10.2cm high Inlay missing, only traces of gilding remaining, her primary right thumb missing Lot: 48 Estimate: £3,000.00 - £4,000.00 A DERGE HORSE HARNESS SECTION Eastern Tibet, 17th century With Central pierced gilt iron boss, set with a coral, Lot: 52 TWO BRONZE FIGURES OF attached to four radiating leather WILD BOARS Southern India, straps with similar gilt iron possibly Kerala or Karnataka, decorative elements 57cm 19th/20th century Each with approx max diam Provenance: beaded necklace and small tusks Spink and Son Some losses to 11.5; 11cm long (2) For a closely gilding and corrosion to metal related group of animals Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 including two boars, see Sotheby's London, 24 April 1991, lot 354. Greenish patina, some encrustations and minor pitting and knocks Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00

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Lot: 53 Lot: 55 "A CHAMBA BRONZE IMAGE AN ELEPHANT AND RIDERS OF VISHNU AND LAKSHMI ON Bastar, Eastern India, 19th GARUDA "Himachal century the animal of stylised Pradesh, Northern India, c.1100 form, ridden by a mahout, with cast brass, the god seated on princely figure on a howdah his vehicle, Garuda, with his being attended to by a servant consort on his knee, the group 18cm high x 20cm long x 12cm flanked by a pair of chauri wide Somewhat knocked and bearers, a large lotus halo behind dented, canopy and one or two the god's head, modern wood other parts apparently missing stand 20cm high Provenance: Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 Private collection, California, USA. The iconography of this image, with the god Vishnu Lot: 56 seated on his vehicle, his consort A FRAMENTARY BRONZE by his side, is particularly popular FIGURE India or Nepal, 12th in Himachal Pradesh. There is a century or earlier Seated with strikingly similar bronze, legs loosely crossed, wood stand depicting Uma-Mahesvara, in the 6.5cm Severely cracked and Norton Simon Museum, corroded Pasadena (Art from the Estimate: £30.00 - £40.00 Himalayas and China, by Pratapaditya Pal, Yale, 2003, no.13). The style is influenced by Pala art from Bengal and Bihar, but the simple, elongated forms, Lot: 57 and concentration on the frontal TWO OIL LAMP FINIALS South impact of the image, gives India, 18th/19th century Brass, Himachal bronzes a unique each in the form of a hamsa, the character. See Michel Postel, small with oil reservoir opening Antiquities of Himachal, p.130 for on its chest, and a Silver similar images. Losses especially Repousse Peacock, from a to extremities, various dents etc. harness or costume 11.5cm high some wear 800 1200 and smaller (3) For complete Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 lamps with similar hamsa figures in the Pratapaditya Pal Collection, see Sean Anderson: Lot: 54 'Flames of Devotion' Los Angeles 2006, nos.2 & 8 Various knocks A BRONZE FIGURE OF SIVA and wear, stopper for smaller Kerala, South India, circa 16th hamsa missing century Standing on a lotus base, Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 his primary hands holding a gada and damaru, his upper left holding an antelope, his long hair flowing onto his shoulders, his Lot: 58 head with conical headdress TWO BRONZE IMAGES India, 25.7cm high Provenance: 19th century Comprising a South Sotheby's London, 24 November Indian figure of Vishnu, the four 1986, lot 30 Greenish patina. armed deity with primary hands Surface with some wear, in abhaya and varada mudra, encrustations and corrosion, and a Western Indian cast brass various small knocks and dents, figure of the infant Krishna, attribute in upper right hand seated on a low chair, a butter missing ball in his right hand 12.2; 7cm Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 high Minor knocks and wear Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00

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Lot: 59 Lot: 63 A BRONZE FIGURE OF DURGA TWO HINDU BRASS SHRINES Western Deccan,circa 17th Western India, 16th/17th century century Seated in lalitasana on a One depicting Vishnu flanked by cushion, a diminutive figure of diminutive devotees, the other Nandi and three skulls below, the with Durga slaying the buffalo four armed goddess holding demon, separately cast stand various attributes 12cm high and prabha 13; 11.5cm (2) Provenance: Private Collection, Provenance: Private Collection, London Generally worn, slightly London Both worn, Vishnu with knocked and dented casting fault onrear of base, base Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 of Durga slightly bent Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00

Lot: 60 A BRONZE FIGURE OF Lot: 64 KRISHNA KALIYADAMANA A BRONZE FIGURE OF South India, 18th century The BALAKRISHNA Bengal, Eastern young god battling with the five India, 19th century The child headed cobra, his hair tied in a deity depicted crawling, a bun, holding a butter ball in his spherical butter ball in his raised right hand 11.5cm Provenance: right hand, his hair tied in a bun Private Collection, London. The 10.3cm high Provenance: Private angry serpent Kaliya was trapped Collection, London Worn in a pool, exuding so much underside, generally good venom that it was poisoning both Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 animals and humans. Krishna rushed to stop him, almost killing him in the fight, but desisted at Lot: 65 the pleading of Kaliya's family, VISHNU WITH SRI DEVI AND and the serpent became a loyal BHUDEVI Tamil Nadu, South devotee. Worn, minor knocks India, 18th century Each standing Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 on a circular lotus on square plinth, the four armed Vishnu holding gada, cakra and sankha, Lot: 61 his primary right hand in abhaya A BRONZE FIGURE OF DURGA mudra, his consorts each holding Western India, 15th/16th century a padma (one now missing) The four armed goddess 35.8cm high (Vishnu); 34cm (Sri depicted slaying the buffalo Devi); 32cm (Bhu Devi) Each demon, Mahisa, the base with various knocks and wear. separately cast 12cm high Vishnu: base repaired and Provenance: Private Collection, slightly distorted; Sri Devi: does London Prabha missing, some not match other two figures; Bhu encrustations on base, worn and Devi: base damaged, feet are an slightly dented old restoration, index finger and Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 padma missing to right hand, damage to robes and left hand strut Lot: 62 Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 TWO BRONZE FIGURES OF DURGA Western India, 16th-17th century Each depicted slaying Lot: 66 the buffalo demon, Mahisa 10, TWO VOTIVE PLAQUES 9.5cm high (2) Provenance: DEPICTING VIRABHADRA Private Collection, London Old Western Deccan, India, 18th damage and losses, some wear century The four armed Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 moustachioed form of Siva wielding a sword and other weapons, the larger plaque with makara torana above issuing from a kirtimukha, the smaller including a figure of Sati at the god's feet 20.5 x 13.5cm; 19 x 14.5cm Daksha offended Siva by not inviting him to attend a

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sacrifice following an earlier Lot: 70 occasion when Siva had slighted A BRONZE FIGURE OF him. Sati, who was Daksha's HANUMAN Bengal, Eastern daughter, as well as being Siva's India, 19th century The plump wife, was present and felt so monkey headed deity standing insulted that she threw herself on erect, wearing a dhoti, necklace, the pyre. Then Siva appeared as anklets, bracelets and sash, Virabhadra and cut off Daksha's wearing a conical hat, his tail head to avenge his wife. Other resting on his back shoulder, his gods pleaded for Daksha's life, right hand in abhaya mudra, his but although Siva decided to left resting on his gada, now spare him, his severed head missing 14.5cm high Gada could not be found, so the head missing, left hand knocked, other of a goat was substituted instead. minorknocks and wear In each of these votive plaques, a Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 chastened and diminutive Daksha is depicted with hands in namaskara mudra, humbly paying respects. The larger with Lot: 71 dark grey-green patina, the other A TOY HORSE AND RIDER with brassy colour,mbira with Rajasthan, 19th century Bronze, wear and various old damages with traces of red pigment, the and knocks horse ridden by a Rajput warrior Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 aiming a hand-cannon. 17.5cm high Wheels missing, worn with old knocks and dents etc Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Lot: 67 A BRONZE FIGURE OF VISHNU WITH LAKSHMI Gujarat, circa 16th century The four-armed god Lot: 72 seated on a throne, his consort A BRONZE VIRABHADRA on his knee, diminutive figure of PLAQUE Western Deccan, India, Garuda and chauri bearers 19th century The six armed below, the prabha with kalasa moustachioed deity with fierce finial 9.5cm high expression, flanked by Daksha Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 and Sati, standing within a cusped arch topped by a kirtimukha, projecting handle on Lot: 68 the reverse 29 x 29.3cm Daksha A BRONZE FIGURE OF GANGA offended Siva by not inviting him RIDING ON HER MAKARA to attend a sacrifice following an Northern India, 19th century The earlier occasion when Siva had river goddess holding her slighted him. Sati, who was waterpot and a padma, her other Daksha's daughter, as well as two hands in abhaya and varada being Siva's wife, was present mudra, her vahana, the makara, and felt so insulted that she threw with scrolling snout and fish-like herself on the pyre. Then Siva body, traces of red lac 12.5cm appeared as Virabhadra and cut high, 19cm long Minor knocks off Daksha's head to avenge his and wear, losses to red pigment wife. Other gods pleaded for Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 Daksha's life, but although Siva decided to spare him, his severed head could not be found, so the head of a goat was Lot: 69 substituted instead. Daksha is A BRONZE FIGURE OF NANDI depicted with hands in BULL Western Deccan, India, namaskara mudra, humbly 17th/18th century Crouching on a paying respects, while at the stepped plinth, a diminutive bottom, he appears prior to the lingam in front, wearing necklace replacement head being fitted, and trappings, his head with two while next to him is the headless long tapering horns 13cm high goat. Slight wear, minor knocks Old wear, base drilled with Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 attachment holes Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00

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Lot: 73 Lot: 77 A CHLORITIC SCHIST A PINK SANSTONE RELIEF FRAGMENTARY RELIEF FRAGMENT Central Indian, circa Solanki Dynasty, Western India, 11th century Depicting two 11th/12th century depicting a dancing girls by a corner column chauri bearer in a columnar niche 65 x 28 x 26cm approx under a kirtimukha, a vyala and Numerous chips and losses, one an elephant on his right 52cm or two repairs high, 19cm wide, 10cm deep Estimate: £1,800.00 - £2,200.00 Provenance: Formerly property of a deceased estate, Kent Numerous small chips and losses to extremities, some minor Lot: 78 A BUFF SANDSTONE FIGURE recutting OF A LION Central India, Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,500.00 11th/12th century With plaited mane, bulging eyes and scrolling tail, his left paw resting on a Lot: 74 diminutive human figure 46cm A BUFF SANDSTONE HEAD OF high, 41cm long, 21cm wide A GODDESS Central India, Losses and chips, especially 11th/12th century Wearing base and right leg, somewhat elaborate jewelled headdress, marked and scratched her face with enigmatic Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,500.00 smile,modern stand 17cm high Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Acquired more than 20 years ago. Encrusted with blackish Lot: 79 A BUFF SANDSTONE STELE deposits, fragmentary condition DEPICTING VISHNU Central Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 India, 11th/12th century The four armed deity holding gada, cakra and kalasa in his three remaining Lot: 75 hands, flanked by diminutive A GUPTA TERRACOTTA HEAD figures of his avatars Varaha and Central India, 5th century Narasimha, further attendant and Wearing turban and large circular devotee figures below, a pair of earrings, mounted on stand rishis and further figures and 12.5cm Numerous chips animals above 72 x 46 x 19cm Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Acquired more than 20 years ago. Various chips and damaged areas, especially around missing right hand Lot: 76 Estimate: £5,000.00 - £7,000.00 A BUFF SANDSTONE FIGURE OF A WOMAN Central India, 11th/12th century Standing in Lot: 80 tribhanga, her left hand A PINK SANDSTONE RELIEF supporting her chin, wearing FRAGMENT Central India, circa tiered headdress, necklace and 11th century Probably a door sash, mounted on stand 67cm jamb section, carved in relief on high Provenance: Private two sides with two attendant Collection, UK. Acquired more figures and a female dancer, than 20 years ago. Feet, right flanked by columns 40cm high; side of figure missing, various 40cm wide, 23cm deep other losses, wear and chips Fragmentary condition, Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 numerous chips around edges, figures mostly good, no obvious repair of restoration Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,500.00

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Lot: 81 patina, old repair to small hole A GRANITE FIGURE OF NANDI Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 BULL South India, 16th/17th century In crouching position, with prominent hump, wearing Lot: 86 beaded collar and blanket 40cm A SILVER REPOUSSE BOWL high; 60cm long; 22cm wide Eastern Java, 10th/11th century Damage to ears and base, Of circular form, the sides with general wear stylised lotus design in relief, a Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 border of floral motifs below the rim 6cm high; 17.5cm diam Surface corroded, flaking Lot: 82 verdigris in patches, a few small A GUPTA TERRACOTTA HEAD holes, base somewhat dented Central India,5th century With Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 large ears and plump cheeks 10.5cm Chips and damage Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 87 A BRONZE FIGURE OF SIVA Peninsular Thailand, circa 10th century His four hands holding kamandalu, aksamala, damaru(?) and in abhaya mudra, with long hair arranged in a tall headdress, Lot: 83 mounted on stand 12cm high A KUSHAN MOTTLED PINK Provenance: Christie's SANDSTONE ARCHITECTURAL Amsterdam, 28 May 1991, lot 39; FINIAL Mathura Region, India, Alex Biancardi Collection. This 4th/5th century Probably the bronze seems to be a provincial apex of an arch, carved in relief version of a series of images with a kirtimukha vomiting jewels, found in peninsular Thailand and flanked by leafy scrolls, mounted Malaysia. The definition of this on stand 28cm high For a similar style as Srivijaya is now being kirtimukha on a 5th century caitya challenged, but two bronzes in window in the Mathura Museum, Songkhla National Museum are see R. C. Sharma, 'The relevant: stylistically, a Lokanatha Splendours of Mathura', p.146 attributed to mid-10th century, Worn, with various old chips etc. and iconographically a Siva Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 Mahadeva dated to the second half of 9th century. See Piriya Krairiksh, 'The Roots of Thai Art' Lot: 84 , Bangkok 2012, p.177 & 248. A TERRACOTTA PIGGY-BANK Greenish patina, various old Majapahit, Eastern Java, 14th knocks etc century Of obese form, with short Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,500.00 stylised legs and tail, a slit on its back 8cm high; 12cm long; 7.5cm wide Provenance: Spink and Lot: 88 Son, London. For a similar, A DVARAVATI TERRACOTTA slightly larger piggy bank in the HEAD OF BUDDHA Thailand, Walter-Grounds Collection, see 7th century With tightly curled Pratapaditya Pal, Icons of Piety, hair, the ears with elongated Images of Whimsy, Los Angeles lobes, the face with full lips, 1987, no.62 Repaired mounted on stand 14.5cm Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 Fragmentary condition, with losses and chips Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Lot: 85 A BRONZE TALAM Java, probably 9th/10th century Of circular form, with central incised medallion, depicting a stylised lotus vase, resting on a further lotus, surrounded by a serrated border, raised overhanging rim 4cm high; 49cm diam Slightly knocked and dented, blackish

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Lot: 89 Lot: 93 A BRONZE HEAD OF BUDDHA, THREE MARBLE FIGURES OF AND TWO BRONZE HANDS BUDDHA Burma, 19th century Thailand, 16th/17th century The Each seated in padmasana on a head with flame usnisa and lotus throne, his hands in dhyana elongated ear lobes, the hands in and bhumisparsa mudra 51, 40, abhaya mudra and dhyana 32cm high (3) Each weathered mudra, the latter with traces of and chipped in places, the larger gilt lacquer 15cm high (head); repaired at neck, chipped usnisa, 15.5, 14cm (hands) (3) Some the middle sized figure missing verdigris and corrosion, broken its left arm, chipped at knee, the edges smaller with chipped usnisa Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 Estimate: £600.00 - £900.00

Lot: 90 Lot: 94 A SCENE FROM VESSANTARA A MAJAPAHIT BRONZE LAMP JATAKA Thailand, 19th century East Java, Indonesia, 14th Gouache on cloth, depicting a century With lozenge shaped deity descending from the reservoir with twin wick holders at heavens to a palace in the forest, either end, the trefoil arched awaited by a princely couple, frame with suspension chain framed 66 x 50.5cm Losses and 19.5cm high (excluding chain) flaking in places, especially For a lamp of similar form in the around lower and upper edges collection of Pratapaditya Pal, Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 see Sean Anderson, 'Flames of Devotion: Oil Lamps from South and South East Asia and the Lot: 91 Himalayas', pl.23 Dryish green TWO FOLK PAINTINGS Burma, patina, some pitting and minor early 20th century Gouache on knocks cloth, each depicting a hunting Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 scene, one with elephant and rider fighting a tiger, the other with two men and a hound Lot: 95 pursuing two hares, card mounts, A SPOUTED WATER POT 52 x 74cm; 48 x 71.5cm (2) Deccan, Southern India, circa Flaking and creasing in places, 18th century of bulbous form, one or two small stains with scrolling makara spout and Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 overhanging rim, indistinctly inscribed on the side in English 11.5cm high Spout slightly loose, Lot: 92 general wear and knocks, old AN AYUTHIA BRONZE FIGURE lead repair on lower side OF A BUDDHIST MONK Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Thailand, 16th/17th century Seated in sattvasana, his right hand in bhumisparsa mudra, his Lot: 96 left originally holding a staff, his A BIDRI PANDAN Deccan, robes, hair and ears rendered in Southern India, circa 1800 Alloy gilded lacquer, later wood stand inlaid with silver, of elongated 53cm high; 45cm wide; 23cm octagonal form, the lid and sides deep Lacquer flaking in places, with stylised iris design 2.4cm gilding with worn patches, some high; 10.5cm long; 6.5cm wide minor knocks, staff and inlay to Slight losses to inlay, minor eyes missing knocks, generally good Estimate: £5,000.00 - £8,000.00 Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00

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Lot: 97 Lot: 101 A BIDRI LID Deccan, Southern AN ENAMELLED SILVER India, circa 1800 Alloy inlaid with AMULET BOX Lucknow, India, silver, of domed form, the sides late 18th century of circular form, decorated with a reticulated iris with scrolling hinged loops at design within a leafy trellis, either end, the front with a flower further foliate borders above and and basket design in enamel and below, lotus bud handle at the gold, a turquoise set in the top 13cm high; 21.7cm diam centre, the sides similarly Some losses to inlay, crack on decorated, the reverse with one edge sparser floral decoration 6.5cm Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 max length Slightly worn and dented, minor losses to enamel Estimate: £120.00 - £150.00 Lot: 98 A BHUJ SILVER COFFEE POT Cutch, Western India, late 19th Lot: 102 century Of cylindrical form, the TWO KASHKULS Persia, 18th sides with profuse chased and century Each of thinner copper, repousse decoration, consisting of boat-shaped form, one with of scrolling foliage framed with incised register of nastaliq acanthus and rope work borders, calligraphy, the with openwork a shield medallion on one side, brass appliqué medallions, each with scrolling cobra handle and on cartouche foot 28.5; 25cm hinged lid with elephant handle, long Each worn, with one or two the spout in the form of a knocks, the larger with bearded sage 25cm high tinning,ostly lost on exterior Although this piece is unmarked Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 it is very similar to the work of one of India's best know silversmiths of the Raj era, Lot: 103 Oomersi Mawji of Bhuj Foot and A BRONZE HUQQA BOTTLE lid somewhat dented, spout lid Lahore, Punjab, India (now missing, surface a little scratched Pakistan), 18th century Of globe in places shaped form, the sides with a Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 reticulated design of incised irises, with ridged flared neck similarly decorated, traces of Lot: 99 silver (?) inlay 16.5cm high Side AN INCISED COPPER TEAPOT slightly dented, inlay mostly lost, Kashmir, Northern India, second general wear half 19th century of bulbous form, Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 with crescent shaped spout, domed hinged lid and scrolling hamsa handle, with profuse floral Lot: 104 and boteh decoration 30cm high A STEEL TULWAR HILT AND A Estimate: £120.00 - £150.00 BRONZE BUCKLE Northern India, early 19th century The hilt with circular pommel, Lot: 100 hemispherical quill one and A CHASED AND ENAMELLED openwork arabesque langet, the BRASS EWER Bhuj, Gujarat, buckle with four openwork Western India, circa 1880 the palmettes linked by serpentine spherical body with profuse floral loops 18.5; 8.5cm (2) Hilt slightly decoration, the splayed foot and tarnished and corroded, buckle flared neck with stylised acanthus with minor wear and knocks decoration, the handle in the form Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 of a dog with makara-like mouth 27cm high Slightly dented in one or two places Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00

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Lot: 105 or so of the 19th century. For a A BIDRI JAR AND COVER closely related ewer, see Metal Deccan, Southern India, 18th Marvels: South Asian century Alloy inlaid with silver, of Handworks, Porvoo 1993, no.8 cushioned form, the domed lid Slightly worn, old welded repair with bud finial, the sides and lid to base, base slightly loose. with repeated acanthus leaf Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 design 9.5cm Somewhat worn, with losses to some inlay Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 110 THREE ITEMS OF INDIAN METALWORK North India, Lot: 106 second half 19th century THREE PAIRS OF BETEL Comprising a small Moradabad CUTTERS India, 19th century tray, tinned brass with lac-filled Brass and steel, two in the form incised floral design, a Benares of a makara, with pointed snout brass tray with Islamic and scrolling tail, the other with calligraphic decoration and a incised circle and dot decoration, Benares pan box with similarly a peacock head finial at the top executed foliate decoration, the 18cm long, and smaller (3) hinged lid opening to reveal a Provenance: Private Collection, tray and four lidded containers London Iron slightly rusty, minor 24.5cm diam of Moradabad tray, wear and knocks and smaller (3) Minor wear, Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 generally good Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 107 A CUTCH SILVER FLOWER Lot: 111 VASE Bhuj, Western India, late A BIDRI SURAHI WITH LID 19th century With chased and Deccan, India, c.1850 Alloy inlaid repousse scrolling foliate and with silver, the stylised decoration acanthus decoration, the lobed in the form of scrolling leaves, tray supporting the flared holder with palmettes and spirals, the 26.5cm high Restored and flattened spherical body, repaired collar section. Repaired surmounted by a flared neck, the crack to base. Slight dents. domed lid with bud finial 25.5cm Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 inc. lid Minor knocks and losses to inlay Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Lot: 108 A SILVER JUG Persia, circa 1900 With chased vine Lot: 112 decoration, scrolling handle, A GILT AND ENAMEL stopper and chain, flared rim foot, CANDLESTICK Kashmir, indistinct marks stamped Northern India, late 19th century underneath 32cm high Generally The tear-shaped bowl with spout good and cobra handle, the shaft Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 composed of three further coiled cobras, on domed base with rim foot, the bowl and base with incised stylised floral decoration, Lot: 109 highlighted with blue, turquoise A BRASS REPOUSSE EWER and red enamel 24cm high Bowl Jaipur School of Art, India, slightly bent and loose c.1890 Of bulbous form, the Estimate: £180.00 - £220.00 scrolling spout with makara head finial, the sides decorated with acanthus, iris and kirtimukha motifs, on splayed rim foot, the lid with ribbed design, surmounted by a bud finial 29.7cm inc. lid This ewer is typical of the revivalist works, in hybrid style, produced under British encouragement at the Jaipur School of Art in the last decade

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Lot: 113 Lot: 116 A BRASS EWER Kashmir, A MORADABAD HUQQA Uttar Northern India, circa 1900 Brass, Pradesh, Northern India,second with incised black lac filled foliate half 19th century Tinned and lac- decoration, of tall slender form, filled brass, with incised scrolling with scrolling spout and handle leaf decoration, of bell shaped and faceted sides, hinged conical form 25.5cm high including pipe lid, the number '140' stamped on fittings Some wear, marks and base 35cm high Finial of lid minor knocks, base plate and missing, foot slightly knocked pipe fittings probably 20th century Estimate: £120.00 - £150.00 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 114 Lot: 117 TWO TANJORE 'SWAMI WORK' A QAJAR LACQUER PAPIER PUJA POTS Tamil Nadu, South MÂCHÉ PEN BOX Persia, 19th India, second half 19th century century Of long oval form, with Copper, with silver, brass, and concertina inner tray, the exterior sheet copper inlay, each of painted with women and cylindrical form, the sides with westernised palaces in a pastoral registers of Hindu deities in relief setting, the underside and interior amongst floral and abstract with gold floral decoration on red decoration, each with incised ground 23.5cm long Provenance: lotus motif on the base 9.2cm old handwritten note inside high approx each (2) Minor reads: 'A present to Mrs. knocks and dents Jaraldfield (?) Bearsted. From Sir Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 George Hampson Captain of the Scots Greys-given after the Crimean War' Edges and ends Lot: 115 with several chips, top somewhat A SILVER INCENSE BURNER discoloured Bhuj,Western India, 19th century Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 Of spherical form, the chased repousse decoration composed of scrolling foliage fringed with Lot: 118 acanthus borders, the upper A QAJAR LACQUER MIRROR section pierced and surmounted CASE Persia, 19th century by a fir-cone finial, three painted and lacquered papier- suspension loops with chain mâché, of rectangular form, the attached to the sides 9cm high exterior painted with roses, tulips (excluding chain) The late 19th and irises, the hinged cover century silver of Bhuj in Cutch painted with a young man on the was some of the finest quality inside 23.5 x 15cm One or two produced in India at the time. The minor old chips and cracks, minor most famous maker was Oomersi retouching to paintwork on Mawji, who produced a wide corners range of mostly western forms Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 with the characteristic floral decoration. This object, although unmarked, fits into the same Lot: 119 tradition, although it is quite a A QAJAR PAPIER MÂCHÉ rarity in being made most likely PENBOX Persia, first half 19th for a Christian, probably Roman century Polychrome painted and Catholic, context, probably due to lacquered with European style the Portuguese presence in this figures and architectural views, part of India. Slightly knocked brass mounts 2.5 x 11.5 x 3cm and dented Chips and wear on edges and Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 bases, catch and hinges slightly loose, re varnished Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00

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Lot: 120 Lot: 125 A QAJAR PAINTED AND THREE STONE LINGAMS India, LACQUERED SCRIBES PEN 20th century or earlier Each of BOX Persia, 19th century Of egg shaped form, perspex stands elongated oval form, the exterior 16, 15, 14cm (3) Minor painted with a register of bold imperfections flowering plants with birds Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 perched on the branches 34cm long Lid with one or two old cracks, interior strut later Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 Lot: 126 A POLYCHROME PAINTED Lot: 121 AND LACQUERED PAPIER A GEM SET JADE HAND- MÂCHÉ TRAY Kashmir, Northern MIRROR Northern India, early India, late 19th century Of 20th century With oval glass in scalloped circular form, profusely flower-shaped frame, the flat decorated with human, animal handle with flared neck element and mythical figures, the central and trefoil finial, the scrolling figure of Vishnu Anantashayana, floral designs set with diamonds, accompanied by Lakshmi and rubies and emeralds in gold Siva as an ascetic 44cm diam mounts, the reverse carved floral Repaired chip on edge, one or design in relief 24.3cm long; 9cm two other minor chips wide Damage to gold mounting Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 of mirror glass, otherwise good Estimate: £3,000.00 - £4,000.00 Lot: 127 A SADELI AND IVORY Lot: 122 VENEERED WORKBOX AN OTTOMAN SILVER BELT Bombay Presidency, circa 1870 Probably eastern Turkey, late Sandalwood, the sides gently 19th century with niello flared, with geometric silver, ivory decorated beaded panels of and wood miscromosaic designs tughras, arabesques or buildings, on ivory ground, the interior with the shaped and beaded buckle various compartments in hung with tassels, reverse with removable tray, mirror and velvet tughra marks 80cm long, 418gr lined lid and base, brass claw (13oz) Minor bent elements feet and handles 13 x 34 x 25cm Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 One foot detached, damage and losses to sadeli work in various places, ivory somewhat cracked Lot: 123 and warped A HOSHIARPUR PEN BOX Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Punjab, India, late 19th century Shisham wood with ivory inlaid decoration, the interior with Lot: 128 compartments and removable A QATAMKARI QUR'AN STAND tray, bracket feet 7 x 32 x 10cm Persia, 19th century Wood, with One foot cracked, minor losses to brass, ivory and ebony ivory inlay micromosaic inlay, with Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 geometrical design, hinged and attached at the centre, the lower sections pierced and painted on Lot: 124 the underside with floral design A LACQUER BOWL Burma, 26 x 47 x 18cm (open) Slight early 20th century Red lacquered knocks and wear, restored rattan, of circular form, standing patches along edges, painted on six short legs, the underside area slightly scratched, varnish inscribed in Burmese script somewhat discoloured 18cm high; 43cm wide Slight Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 cracking in places Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00

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Lot: 129 Lot: 133 A QATAMKARI FOLDING A PAINTED WOOD CEILING MIRROR BOX Persia, 19th PANEL Goa or Kerala India, 19th century Wood, with brass, ivory century Of octagonal form, the and ebony micromosaic inlay, the central roundel with carved hinged lid opening to reveal a parakeet, surrounded by four mirror, a drawer below with painted angel heads with wings various compartments, brass and epaulettes 108cm square; mounts 8 x 26.5 x 34.5cm 12cm high Parts to outer Various knocks and chips, some moulding missing, beak of bird losses and small damaged, various chips and repairs/restoration to inlay stains Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00

Lot: 130 Lot: 134 A BRASS CANE HANDLE AND TEN IVORY GAMING PIECES WOOD FIGURE OF HANUMAN Northern India, 18th century India, 19th century The handle in Each of pointed domed form, the form of a stylised horse's turned and carved in low relief head with pointed ears and with stylised triple leaf form, the plaited mane, the wood figure ground stained red or green with traces of polychrome,the 2.5cm high (10) These typical monkey headed deity carrying gaming pieces are from a pachisi two diminutive figures on his set. Pachisi is probably India's shoulders 13.5; 27.5cm long (2) favourite board game, somewhat Handle with knocks and akin to draughts or solitaire. One scratches, Hanuman worn and or two chips and cracks, colours damaged somewhat faded Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00

Lot: 131 Lot: 135 A KANDYAN CHIEF AND HIS A BACKGAMMON BOARD WIFE Sri Lanka, early 20th Northern India, early 19th century century Carved wood, each Carved wood, the central dividers wearing traditional costume, the in the form of a mihrab, flanked man wearing typical Kandyan by six lobed slots on either side hat,on rectangular base, old label 4cm high; 46cm square Slightly underneath reading: 'Kandyan cracked with old filling, various chief, Cingalese [...]' 24.5cm high minor scratches etc Old chip to hat, wood slightly Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 cracked Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 136 A PAIR OF LACQUERED AND Lot: 132 GOLD PAINTED WOOD A CARVED AND PAINTED CHAIRS Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, WOOD PRABHA Tamil Nadu, India, mid-19th century Of South India, 19th century Of regency form, with scrolling arms arched form, carved and painted and serpentine legs, caned seat, on both sides with a kirtimukha at the carved and painted foliate the top, the bi lobed arch decoration in gold on black supported by a pair of makaras, ground, later silk cushions 85cm on top of the side columns, the high; 56cm wide; 57cm deep upper part attached with iron There were several sites along braces 135 x 104 x 11cm Chips the Ganges associated with and losses to paint and carving, chinoiserie furniture during the sections slightly loose first half of 19th century, including Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 Patna and Lucknow, but the leaf carving on the back is most similar to the forms found on the accompanying bases of chests from Bareilly, such as an example in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv.

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02325: see Amin Jaffer: Luxury Lot: 140 Goods from India, no.45). An TWO POLYCHROME PAINTED interesting technical detail is that BOXES Kashmir, Northern India, damaged areas on these chairs circa 1900 The large of papier reveal that the black lacquer was mâché, the smaller of turned applied to cloth laid on the wood wood, both profusely decorated to facilitate adhesion. Chips and with floral designs 14.5cm high; flaking in places to decoration, 18cm diam, 7.7cm high; 10cm old repair with iron brace on back diam (4 including lids) The larger of one, repaired right arm base with minor retouching, the on the other, new caning smaller with some minor chips Estimate: £3,000.00 - £4,000.00 Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00

Lot: 137 Lot: 141 A PIETRA DURA INLAID A MODEL OF A FARMER WITH MARBLE BOWL Agra, Northern SEED DRILL Probably India, 19th century Of rectangular Krishnanagar, Bengal, late 19th form, with inclined sides and century Wood, clay, cloth and overhanging rim, with stylised string model, realistically worked, foliate decoration in Mughal style, the seed drill pulled by two the inlay including lapis lazuli and buffalo, the farmer wearing dhoti cornelian 5cm high x 28.5cm long and turban 19.5cm high; 34cm x 20.5cm wide The fame and long; 17cm wide Models such as popularity or the Taj Mahal this were made in considerable amongst both Indians and quantities during the last century Europeans was such that a or so of British rule. Large whole industry sprung up numbers have ended up in providing both painted depictions private collections of British of the inlay work, and small scale families associated with colonial examples of the technique for India, but many were clearly export. See P. Pal, 'Romance of made for educational purposes, the Taj Mahal' Los Angeles 1989, to satisfy the imperial desire to p.239ff. Minor chips and classify and understand the scratches to corners and edges, native communities over which losses to inlay thy ruled. For examples in the Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, see C.A.Bayly (Ed): The Raj, London Lot: 138 1990, p.288. Various marks chips A CARVED PANEL FROM A and wear, mostly minor PROCESSIONAL CHARIOT Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 Tamil Nadu, South India, 19th century Depicting a dvarapala, holding a mace, flanked by Lot: 142 diminutive female chauri bearers TWO MISCROMOSAIC 64 x 27 x 10cm approx (including OBJECTS Early 20th century projecting attachment at top) Comprising a Qatamkari box, the Various chips and cracks lid and sides with ivory panels Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 painted with scenes in Safavid style, and an ivory and wood chess board with geometric Lot: 139 parquetry decoration 6.5 x 17.5 x A POLYCHROME PAINTED 10cm (box); 3.2 x 31.7 x 31.7cm WOOD DOWRY BOX Kerala, (chess board) Each with various South India, probably early 20th chips and losses, varnish on box century With elaborate brass somewhat discoloured mounts and pitched lid, painted Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 with scroll, floral and geometrical designs 25cm high (handle upright); 36cm wide, 27cm deep Minor chips and scratches, one or two inconspicuous cracks Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00

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Lot: 143 wear A LARGE WOOD FIGURE OF A Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 MULTI-HEADED NAGA Tamil Nadu, South India, probably early 20th century Polychrome painted Lot: 148 wood, the platform supported by A TALISMANIC PENDANT the coiled body, a multi-canopy Probably Rajasthan, India, 19th above 196cm high x 110cm wide century Silver alloy with glass x 121cm deep inlay, in the form of a floral Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 medallion containing a sun a double crescent moon motif, fringed with spherical drops on Lot: 144 chains 10.5cm max length Worn, A LARGE WOOD FIGURE OF some beads missing HANUMAN Tamil Nadu, South Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 India, probably early 20th century Polychrome painted wood, the monkey headed god resting on Lot: 149 one knee, his arms outstretched A QAJAR MOULDED 155cm high x 107cm wide by PICTORIAL TILE probably 137cm deep Teheran, Persia, 19th century Of Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 square form, fritware, underglaze painted on white slip ground, the low relief painted scene depicting Lot: 145 two princes seated under a palm NIMETULLAH GERASIM (1904- tree smoking a narghileh 26.5 86) View of Ayia Sofia, Istanbul, square approx. Surface of glaze dated 1959 Charcoal and somewhat pitted, glaze slightly watercolour on paper 410 x crackled. 290mm Nimetullah Gerasim was Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 born in St. Petersburg, and moved to Turkey in 1956, where he remained for the rest of his Lot: 150 life. He painted many scenes of A QAJAR CUERDA SECA the country and exhibited in TERRACOTTA TILE Persia, 19th Ankara. Good century Of square form, the Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 decoration comprising leafy yellow arabesques on dark blue ground, interspersed with pink Lot: 146 and green flowers and a foliage A PAIR OF GEM SET 'sceptre' head, old frame, an old EARRINGS India, late 19th/early label on the reverse reading 20th century Each in two 'H.M.' 20.5cm square approx. sections, with diamonds set in Old weathering(?) to glaze, some silver, fringed with seed pearls, chips around edges, attached to gold loop 4.5cm long approx frame with or tar and nails each (2) Provenance: Spink and Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Son, London No obvious damage or losses Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,200.00 Lot: 151 A MULTAN MOULD DOOR- JAMB TILE Punjab, now Lot: 147 Pakistan, circa 18th century Of TWO SILVER LINGAM rectangular form, the light and CASKETS Karnataka, Deccan, dark blue decoration comprising Southern India, early 20th a raised part 'sceptre' head motif century Each with central containing Islamic calligraphy, compartment, flanked by twin surrounded by floral motifs on string attachments with pointed white ground, the glazed finials, one of oval form, the other decoration continuing along left in the form of stylised horns of edge 13.5 x 17.8 x 3cm approx. Nandi 7.5;10.5cm diam (2) For a Section on left side lost, various near identical 'Nandi' type casket, chips around edges, glaze see O. Untracht, Traditional crackled Jewelry of India, London 1997, Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 pl.237 Each with minor dents and

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Lot: 152 Lot: 156 A LARGE MULTAN GLAZE A SAFAVID BLUE AND WHITE TERRACOTTA TILE Punjab, FLASK Persia, circa 1700 now Pakistan, 18th century of Underglaze painted fritware, the square form, from an inscription faceted sides with twisted rope all frieze, the light and dark blue work edges, ridged and flared decoration comprising nastaliq neck, the front and back with calligraphy with the words mihrab shaped panel containing 'hazrat' majesty and 'az' if, or for the words 'Amal-I Husain' (made amidst floral sprigs, an acanthus by Husain) and stylised peacock, border below and plain border the sides with a stylised scrolling above 30.5cm approx. square flowering plant 33cm high This One or two chips around edges, unusual bottle clearly imitates a glaze crackled and a bit leather or perhaps metal discoloured underneath prototype, with the Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 edgesprobably indicatingstitching Collapsed neck due to original firing fault, subsequently broken Lot: 153 and refixed, glaze crackled and A DAMASCUS TILE Ottoman stained underneath in places, Syria, late 16th century chips to edge and rim Underglaze painted fritware, of Estimate: £1,500.00 - £1,800.00 square form, with central star- shaped floral medallion, surrounded by radiating design of Lot: 157 floral arabesque medallions A COLLECTION OF PERSIAN alternating with stylised lotuses POTTERY Persia, 10th-17th 22 x 20cm Has been reduced, century Comprising a small bottle surface slightly weathered and and three polychrome painted crackled, losses around edges, terracotta bowls, probably slight staining under the glaze Nishapur, a 'Sultanabad' bowl Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 with lobed rim, a small Seljuk pierced white ware bowl, and two Bamiyan bowls 20cm diam and Lot: 154 smaller (9) Each with damage, A NISHAPUR POTTERY JAR most with losses, repairs and Persia, 10th/11th century some restoration Terracotta, polychrome painted Estimate: £200.00 - £250.00 on cream slip ground with knotted abstract motifs, three suspension handles (one now Lot: 158 missing) on the shoulder 28cm A KIRMAN GHALIAN Safavid high One handle missing, Persia, 17th century Blue, red another re-attached, one or two and sage green underglaze chips and scratches to rim, sides painted fritware, with Ottoman gilt and foot. Minor crackling to glaze metal mounts, the decoration in places, no apparent restoration composed of arabesque Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,500.00 medallions, Chinese clouds and inverted leafy plant forms 24.5cm high Old chip on one Lot: 155 side, other minor damages, old A KASHAN JUG Persia, second damage made good with metal half 12th century Monochrome additions turquoise glazed terracotta, with Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 carved floral and abstract decoration, ridged handle and gently flared neck 21.5cm high Lot: 159 Intact, small chips to rim and AN UNUSUAL KASHAN body. Glaze crackled, firing LUSTRE DISH Persia, 13th imperfections century The interior with lustre Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 painted design of seven medallions , each containing a seated figure, the cavetto and rim with scrolling floral design, the underside with tripod legs, glazed in cobalt with vestiges of lustre

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overglaze decoration 11.5cm Museum) and is rarely seen in high; 26.5cm diam The unusual examples from the classic form is perhaps inspired by larger polychrome phase of the 1560s scale brass trays on stands, or onwards. Crackled glaze, with simply a variation of the 'tazza' some scratching, edges with form. Broken and repaired with various chips, one with smoke some filling and retouching, lustre stains along one edge worn in places, glaze crackled Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,500.00 and iridescent on underside Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 Lot: 162 A QAJAR POTTERY GHALIAN Lot: 160 BASE Persia, 19th century TWO BLUE AND WHITE Terracotta partially polychrome VESSELS Persia, China, 18th, glazed, of bottle shaped form, the 19th century The Chinese bowl of sides with a register of birds on porcelain, in octagonal form, the stipples turquoise ground, the centre painted with a pair of shoulder and neck with similar, seated maidens within a roundel, abstract, decoration 19.5cm and a late Safavid fritware plate, Acquired by the vendor during painted with the same motif, the 1960s in Alexandria. Slightly diaper patterned border, the chipped on base, repaired break underside with a register of on rim, hole filled on side stylised foliage, a faux Chinese Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 monogram on the base Chinese bowl: 7cm high, 28cm diam; Safavid plate: 5cm high, 25cm Lot: 163 diam (2) For a Persian blue and A QAJAR MOULDED TILE white vase with similar paired Persia, circa 1900 Glazed Chinese figures in the Victoria fritware, the moulded and and Albert Museum, London, see underglaze painted design Yolande Crowe, 'Persia and comprising an eight pointed star China', Geneva 2002, no.251. with stylised foliate decoration, a Bowl: restored chip, firing crack; cavetto border along the bottom Plate: repaired breaks with scrolling floral design 19.4 x Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 23 x 3cm (max dimensions) Discoloured under crackled glaze, minor chips Lot: 161 Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 TWO DAMASCUS TILES Ottoman Syria, third quarter 16th century Fritware, underglaze Lot: 164 painted in blue, turquoise, purple A QAJAR TILE DEPICTING THE and green, the design outlined in MADONNA AND CHILD Persia, black, the design of each circa 1900 Glazed fritware, in the composed of arabesque form of an eight pointed star, the medallions within a trellis of Madonna and infant Jesus both stylised floral forms and leafy wearing crowns, position scrolling tendrils, 28cm square indicators painted on the reverse approx each Provenance: 21.2cm Max diam Tiles were Removed from the fireplace of a produced for the embellishment house in Perthshire, Scotland. of Christian churches in Iran and The tiles had been installed in the Syria during the 19th century, 1890s. This design is first seen in and a number have appeared on the Selimiyye Madrassa (1566 the art market. They follow in the AD), an annexe of the tradition of of Iznik and Kutahya Sulemaniyya mosque in pottery produced for the Christian Damascus. It is one of the most market. For other examples, see characteristic designs produced Christie's South Kensington, 26 by local craftsmen heavily April 2013, lot 691 and 5 October influenced by Iznik production in 2012, lot 733 Glaze crackled, neighbouring Turkey. very minor chips and Interestingly this particular discolouration, otherwise good pattern is closer to the earlier, Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 blue and white phase of Iznik tile making, (e.g. inv. no. 686B-1892 in the Victoria and Albert

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Lot: 165 each corner 106 x 84.5cm (20) A MULTAN DECORATIVE Various chipped corners and PLATE Punjab, India (now edges Pakistan), circa 1880 Glazed Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 terracotta, the pierced rim with moulded acanthus design, the centre with stylised painted Lot: 170 flowering plant 4.7cm high; A KASHAN MOULDED BORDER 26.5cm diam Rim and foot TILE Persia, 12th/13th century slightly chipped, glaze with some Monochrome turquoise glazed crackling, the centre with kiln fritware, with abstract lozenge spur marks and diamond design in relief 13.5 Estimate: £120.00 - £150.00 x 33.7 x 4cm Broken in two and repaired, losses and iridescence to glaze Lot: 166 Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 SEVEN DAMASCUS TILES Ottoman Syria, 18th century Underglaze painted fritware, Lot: 171 three from larger compositions, A SAFAVID LUSTRE WARE four with single repeat designs BOTTLE Persia, second half 17th 23cm square and smaller (7) century Overglaze lustre painted Four with repaired breaks, two fritware, of bulbous form, reduced, all with crackled glaze decorated with irises and lotuses and various chips 9cm high Neck has been Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 reduced, surface slightly discoloured,chip on foot Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 Lot: 167 TWO IZNIK TILES Ottoman Anatolia, second half 17th Lot: 172 century Underglaze painted A CANAKKALE EWER Western fritware, of square form, one with Anatolia, 19th century Terracotta, radiating arabesque design, the brown transparent glaze, with other depicting part of a floral overpainted and clay appliqué trellis 24cm square approx each floral decoration, scrolling twin Both broken and repaired handle, the zoomorphic handle Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 flanked by a pair of stylised horns 36cm high Small restored area on tip of spout, one or two minor Lot: 168 chips, over painting somewhat SEVEN MULTAN TILES AND A worn FRAGMENT OF A DISH Punjab, Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 India (now Pakistan), 18th-19th century The tiles of square form, various designs including three Lot: 173 with fleur de lys motifs, two with A MULTAN VASE Punjab, India arabesques and two with stylised (now Pakistan), circa 1880 Tin floral motifs, the dish fragment glazed terracotta, with painted with thuluth inscription 17.8cm decoration in three shades of square and smaller Some blue, with floral motifs within leafy chipped edges, one tile broken cartouches, and acanthus and repaired borders, the top with lobed rim Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 60cm high Glaze crackled, some small chips and flaking to glaze Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 169 A QAJAR CERDA SECA TILE PANEL Persia,19th century Composed of twenty square tiles, with polychrome glazed design comprising an elaborate arabesque medallion, surrounded by a border of scrolling floral arabesques, a further floral medallion with Chinese clouds in

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Lot: 174 Lot: 178 SIXTEEN BACK ISSUES OF HAFIZ SHIRAZI, DIVAN, HALI MAGAZINE 1986-2002 COPIED BY HASAN 'ALI VALAD (incomplete run) Mostly good HAJJI BABA SHIRAZI Qajar Estimate: £50.00 - £80.00 Persia, dated AH 1229 (AD 1813- 14) Persian manuscript on paper, 179 leaves, 15 lines to the page, written in one and two columns of elegant nasta'liq/shikasteh script in black ink, intercoumnar and inter linear rules in gold, inner margins ruled in gold, catchwords Lot: 175 written in outer margins, one F. R. MARTIN: THE MINIATURE illuminated headpiece in colours PAINTERS OF PERSIA India and gold, outer borders of folios and Turkey from the 8th to the 1b-2a richly decorated with 18th Century, London 1912 First intertwining floral and vegetal edition, Vol II (Plates) 385 x 300 motifs in gold with some colour, x 50mm Provenance: Private European light brown morocco, Collection, London Leather gilt and engraved: Dust binding lost except for cover, Mohamed Khan Moayer-el- plates mostly good apart from a Mamalek, duo lures and flyleaves few marks and tears of marbled paper, in a blue calf Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 gilt slipcase, bookplate of Fairuz Library 190 x 121mm Dust Muhammad Khan was a son of Lot: 176 Dust 'Ali Khan Mu'ayyir al- A COLLECTION OF BOOKS Mamalik, and a son-in-law of AND CATALOGUES ON INDIAN Nasir al-Din Shah. After his AND ISLAMIC ART Including father's promotion and the 'King of the World: the acquisition of his new title in Padshanama, Windsor Castle'; 1871, he was promoted to his 'The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art father's former position in charge from India'; 'In the Image of Man: of the Mint and awarded the title the Indian Perception of the Mu'ayyir al-Mamalik. He also Universe through 2000 Years of held the post of governor of Painting and Sculpture; 'Tresors Khurasan and Yazd and died in Fatimides du Caire; Sotheby's 1903. Some water staining and Christies, Islamic and Indian otherwise good condition. art; exhibition catalogues Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 published by Rossi and Rossi, China Square, John Eskenazi, Indar Pasricha, Jacqueline Lot: 179 Simcox, Sam Fogg, Francesca A TALISMANIC CHART Qajar Galloway, Tucker and Tozer, et Persia, 19th century Arabic al. (25) Mostly good manuscript on gazelle skin, laid Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 on paper, text comprised of verses from the Qur’an, prayers and magical numbers Lot: 177 incorporated into central circles, AN ILLUMINATED QUR'AN numerous panels and bands, SECTION Ottoman Turkey, 16th written horizontally and – 18th century. Ottoman Turkey, diagonally in naskhi script in 16th/17th century Arabic alternating red and black ink, manuscript on paper, 27 leaves, framed 415 x 360mm approx The 7 lines to the page written in clear purpose of such charts was to naskhi script, in green, blue, red protect the individual from the evil and gold, one illuminated eye, diseases, hardships during headpiece in the Timurid style, travel and enemies in battle. embossed leather cover 270 x tears with loss of small areas of 190mm Pages loose in binding, text some discolouration, tears, and Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 repairs Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00

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Lot: 180 Lot: 182 NUR 'ALI SHAH, DIVAN, FOUR LEAVES OF SHIKASTEH COPIED BY MUHAMMAD CALLIGRAPHY Persia, 19th ISMAI'IL AL-HUSAINI Persia, century Black ink on gold ground, circa 1800 Persian manuscript on laid on a album page, one signed paper, written in one and two by Abdul-Majid, another with text columns of elegant shikasteh relating to Hafiz Shirazi, the last script in black ink, double framed 225 x 143mm average intercolumnar and inter linear size Each with slight staining rules in gold, outer borders of and minor smudging, one with folios 1b-2a decorated with creases intertwining floral and vegetal Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 motifs in gold, light brown morocco with a stamped diaper pattern, doublures of marbled Lot: 183 paper, bookplate of the Fairuz EIGHT PERSIAN PAINTINGS Library, seal impression of the AND MANUSCRIPTS 20th scribed Muhammad Isma'il al- century Comprising two pairs of Husaini, dated AH 1215 (AD manuscript pages, two printed 1800-1801) 138 x 80mm Slightly pages of ornamental Kufic worn calligraphy, a drawing of an elder Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 seducing a musician, and a watercolour of the Div Akwan throwing Rustam into the sea (8) Lot: 181 355 x 280mm and smaller A PRAYER BOOK Provenance: Private Collection, COMMISSIONED BY THE Germany Some faded and MOTHER OF NUSRAT AL- stained, one or two with tears DAWLA Persia, dated AH Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 1277(AD 1860-1) Copied by the scribe Yusif, son of the deceased Manuchehr Mirza Qajar, Arabic Lot: 184 manuscript on paper, 16 leaves, A MUGHAL PORTRAIT OF A 6 lines to the page, written in RULER, POSSIBLY SHAH naskhi script in black ink, inter JAHAN Northern India, 18th linear Persian translation written century gouache with gold on in nasta'liq script in red, inter paper, framed 180mm x 110mm linear double rules in gold, inner Provenance: Private Collection, margins ruled in blue and gold, Germany Condition: one or two catchwords, red morocco creases and flaked patches binding, doublures of marbled Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 paper 170 x 100mm Nusrat al- Dawla is likely to be Firuz Mirza (d.1885), the 16th son of 'Abbas Mirza Na'ib al-Saltana, for whom Lot: 185 A LADY SEATED UNDER A this prayer was most probably TREE Rajasthan, 18th century copied, 'for protection and health' gouache with gold on paper, set as mentioned in the opening within four columns of nastaliq page, at the time when he was script on separate paper, framed appointed to the command of the Provenance: Property of a army in Iraq and in Malayer, German private collector Image where he already held the and text have been combined position of governor. The scribe from different sources, small tear Sultan Yusif was a son of and minor flaking to image, text Manuchehr Mirza, the 14th son of panels with water stains. 'Abbas Mirza Na'ib al-Saltana. Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 The only recorded work by him is another prayer book dated rajab 1276 (January-February 1860). Good condition, binding slightly worn Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00

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Lot: 186 Lot: 191 A TRAVELLING MENDICANT FOUR INDIAN PAINTINGS Rajasthan, India, late 18th 18th/19th century Depicting an century gouache on paper, 19 embracing couple in a wood, the lines of nastaliq on the reverse, young Krishna milking his cow, framed 130mm x 68mm Krishna on an elephant and a Provenance: Private collection, group of scribes (4) 120 x Germany Condition: some 165mm Provenance: Private wormholes and minor wrinkling Collection, Germany Each with Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 trimmed or damaged edges, flaking and staining Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Lot: 187 A LATE MUGHAL PAINTING OF A HAWK Northern India, first half Lot: 192 19th century Gouache on paper, AN EROTIC SCENE Sirohi, orange ground floral border, eight Rajasthan, India, 18th century lines of nastaliq in black and red Gouache with gold on paper, the on the reverse 177 x 115mm loving couple in a pavilion under approx Provenance: Private a canopy overlooking a garden, collection, Germany Paper being served drinks by a female slightly wrinkled, calligraphy attendant, inscribed in somewhat smudged devanagari in gold at the top 240 Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 x 150mm Provenance: Private Collection, Germany Some flaking and damage, especially Lot: 188 around margin FOUR DRAWINGS AND Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 PRINTS India, 19th century Comprising a drawing of a prince, another depicting Siva's trident, a Lot: 193 print of Siva as an ascetic, and a A TWO SIDED PAGE FROM AN printed page of scenes from the EDITION OF THE Ramayana (4) 160 x 310 and MAHABHARATA Pahari, North- smaller Each with some damage Western India, 19th century Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 Gouache and ink on paper, one side depicting Bhima with attendants, the other Bhima Lot: 189 slaughtering his enemies, from SCORPIONS BATTLING WITH the Kijaka story 200 x 312mm CENTIPEDES Mughal, Northern Provenance: Private Collection, India, 18th century Gouache on Germany Slightly marked in paper, laid onto an album page places, generally good 157 x 125mm Provenance: Estimate: £60.00 - £80.00 Private collection, Germany Image slightly rubbed, wormholes near centre, page damaged Lot: 194 around edges TWO KASHMIR MANUSCRIPT Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 LEAVES Northern India, 19th century Gouache and ink on paper, one two sided, depicting Lot: 190 Varahi and Durga respectively, THREE INDIAN DRAWINGS 18- the other depicting Siva flanked 19th century Ink on paper, on either side by seven lines of comprising a composite elephant, devanagari script 80 x145; 100 x Pahari, a Brahmin devotee and 120mm Provenance: Private two seated women, Rajasthan (3) Collection, Germany Flaking and 305 x 245mm and smaller discolouration, damage and Provenance: Private Collection, stains, especially around edges Germany The larger with Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 damaged edges, each with various marks and stains, the smaller two laid on card Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

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Lot: 195 Lot: 199 A PAGE FROM THE FOUR PAINTINGS OF HORSES RAMAYANA Kashmir, Northern Rajasthan, early 20th century India, 19th century Gouache with Gouache with ink on paper, each gold and ink on paper, the small inscribed in devanagari, and central image depicting Rama numbered, framed 27 x 21cm and Sita on a throne, adored by approx each These paintings are Lakshman and Hanuman, said to have been painted for the surrounded by sixteen lines if Maharaja of Udaipur as an aid to devanagari script 190 x 295mm the appraisal of polo ponies Provenance: Private Collection, Paper slightly discoloured, Germany Losses and damaged otherwise good area near top encroaching onto Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 left side of illustration Estimate: £60.00 - £80.00 Lot: 200 A LADY WITH A CRYSTAL Lot: 196 BALL Northern Deccan, probably A PORTRAIT OF RAO Aurangabad, circa 1680 LAKHPATJI OF CUTCH Western Gouache with gold on paper, India, first half 19th century from a Ragamala series, her Gouache on paper, standing on a hand brandishing the objects, terrace, with two swords, wearing surrounded by female musicians flared skirt and elaborate turban and a chauri bearer in courtyard 220mm x 140mm (image) garden, three lines of devanagari "Provenance: Private Collection, at the top, a further line added to Germany. For other portraits of red border 377 x 247mm This is Rao Lakhpatji of Cutch, see B.N. from a series attributed to Goswamy and A.L. Dallapiccola, Aurangabad, which are to be A Place Apart: Painting in Kutch, found in a number of American 1720-1820, Delhi, 1983, pls.III-VI Museums. See Joseph M. Dye & 2 Spots of worm damage, top III, 'The Arts of India' no.161, for border missing 200 300 an example in the Virginia Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Museum of Fine Arts. Others are in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Gift of Harry Lot: 197 Kahn, M.74.105.1), the Cincinnati TWO SCENES FROM THE LIFE Art Museum, and the OF KRISHNA Western India, Philadelphia Museum of Art circa 1600 Gouache with ink on Water staining and retouching paper, inscribed in nagari front around top left corner, otherwise and back 190 x 315mm approx. generally good Provenance: Jagdish Mittal; Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 Private Collection, Germany Some staining, frayed edges Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 201 SCENES FROM THE BHAGAVATA PURANA Kangra, Lot: 198 mid-19th century Gouache with SEVEN PORTRAITS OF gold on paper, the tableau MUGHAL RULERS Probably comprising nine episodes, Delhi, late 19th century Gouache including the hiding of the gopis' on ivory panels, one of circular clothes, the great fire and form, the others rectangular, Krishna's marriage to Radha 275 Urdu inscriptions on the reverse x 357mm Corners damaged, 60 x 38mm and smaller (7) One otherwise good broken, each somewhat rubbed Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 and faded Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

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Lot: 202 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 TWO RAGAMALAS FROM A SERIES Hyderabad, Deccan, India, 18th century Gouache with Lot: 206 gold on paper, attached to each A FOLIO FROM AN other with remains of old binding, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT each laid on an album page, one Marwar, Rajasthan, India, mid- depicting a princess with 18th century Gouache with ink musician and attendant, the other and gold on paper, one side depicting two maidens on a depicting a ruling family in a terrace engaged in conversation, palace, the other a princely figure wide foliate borders, each by a river, the devanagari script inscribed in nastaliq on the in black and red, surrounded by a reverse, each with flyleaf 360 x floral border 285 x 200mm This is 249mm Smudging and staining probably from the same in places, worn, especially dispersed manuscript as a page around edges from the Jain manuscript, Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 Chandana Malayagiri Varta in the Brooklyn Museum, see Amy Poster,'Realms of Heroism' Lot: 203 Brooklyn 1994, no.150. A SCENE PROBABLY FROM Fragmentary condition THE BHAGAVATA PURANA Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Central India, 18th century Gouache with gold on paper, laid on card, depicting Krishna and Lot: 207 Radha in a garden pavilion, A PRINCE VISITS A VILLAGE further figures in a palace below, WEAVER Rajasthan, mid-19th a rustic shrine in the foreground, century Gouache with gold on devanagari inscription in top paper, laid on card, the prince margin and on reverse 343 x coaxing a peacock from the roof 259mm Waterstain at bottom, of the hut 200 x 160mm (image) edges worn, otherwise good Slight flaking and cracking to Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,500.00 surface Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00

Lot: 204 A FOLIO FROM AN Lot: 208 ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT TWO MAIDENS IN Jaipur, Rajasthan, 18th century CONVERSATION UNDER A Gouache with ink and gold on TREE Probably Basohli, India, paper, one side depicting Krishna 18th century Gouache with gold and Radha, the other Radha (?) and silver on paper, the two swimming in a pool, each image women wearing elaborate surrounded by a floral border and jewellery, one seated on a rock, lines of devanagari in red and the other on a stool, under a black ink, the rectangular panel billowing tree, cursive devanagari surrounded by a further margin of inscription on the reverse 210 x reticulated leafy bouquets 285 x 193mm (image) Upper and lower 162mm approx Edges trimmed, border pierced and overall worn, small tear at bottom, minor areas of retouching to smudging background around figures and Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 bottom left corner Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00

Lot: 205 A FOLIO FROM A DISPERSED Lot: 209 SHAHNAMA Delhi or Kashmir, RADHA TRIES ON KRISHNA'S 18th century Gouache on paper, CROWN Pahari, probably an image of a nobleman being Garhwal, mid-19th century executed on one side, the Gouache with etched gold on nastaliq arranged in four paper, Radha seated on her own columns, ruled in eyed 335 x in the palace looking in a mirror, 240mm Edges with tears, worm later inscriptions in English on the damage especially around reverse 282 x 240mm Trimmed, margins edges slightly marked, otherwise

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good Lot: 214 Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,500.00 A SCENE FROM THE LIFE OF KRISHNA Central India, 16th/17th century Gouache on Lot: 210 paper, depicting revelries A HERMIT IS VISITED BY AN amongst the cowherds, the river ANGEL Mandi, Punjab Hills, in the foreground,Na line of India, 18th century Gouache with devanagari at the top 210 x gold on paper, the hermit seated 260mm Losses and damage to by a fire outside his hut, the edges and yellow border, main winged angel descending from image mostly good the sky, bearing a gift(?), Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 numerals in ink on the reverse 106 x 171mm Slight water staining and flaking especially Lot: 215 around edges AN ILLUSTRATED FOLIO Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 PROBABLY FROM A JAIN SUTRA Gujarat, Western India, 16th century Ink and gouache on Lot: 211 paper, of horizontal rectangular PORTRAIT OF ZULFIQAR format, depicting a procession of KHAN Mughal, India, late 17th female devotees and supplicants century Gouache with gold on visiting a digambara ascetic, six paper, from an album page, the lines of devanagari above, a subject wearing a jamawar coat further eleven lines on the and brocaded pathka, holding reverse 120 x 272mm Slight bow and arrow, nastaliq rubbing, staining and smudging inscription above, further six line Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 nastaliq inscription in panel on the reverse 187 x 107mm (image) The inscription reads Lot: 216 Zulfiqar Khan [...] Asad Khan. A SCENE FROM THE LIFE OF Zulfiqar Khan, son of Asad Khan KRISHNA Deccan, 18th century was born in 1657, and became Gouache with gold on paper, the one of the Mughal emperor young god and his companions Aurangzeb's most important witness a panther attacking a noblemen, and a powerful bandicoot, while a man tries to general. Page trimmed, slight frighten him off, inscribed in rubbing, creasing and flaking, cursive nastaliq above and on the lower edge slightly scratched reverse 128 x 242mm (main Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,500.00 image) Edges damaged, image slightly rubbed Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,500.00 Lot: 212 A PRINCE TENDS TO HIS LOVER'S FOOT Deccan, Lot: 217 Southern India, 18th century A SAIVITE DEITY Punjab, India, Gouache with gold on paper, early 19th century Gouache with probably folio from a Ragamala gold on paper, the winged white series 157 x 106mm (image) haired figure seated on a rug in a Centre of image a bit rubbed, landscape, holding a trisula with slight discolouration to border pennant, diminutive cobras Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 wrapped around his limbs, inscriptions in devanagari below, six lines of devanagari on the Lot: 213 reverse 260 x 190mm Left KRISHNA AND RADHA ON A border pierced and slightly SWING Deccan, Southern India, rubbed, lower inscription 18th century Gouache with gold smudged, minor damage to on paper, probably from a reverse Ragamala series, later cursive Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 devanagari inscription on top margin 157 x 103mm Good apart from minor discolouration to border Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00

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Lot: 218 small illustrations and decorative A HINDU DEITY Punjab, India, medallions, each leaf numbered early 19th century Gouache with 117 x 300mm (67) The gold on paper, the figure with Kalpasutra is one of the most white arms and torso, black legs important texts for Svetambara and feet, standing on a terrace in Jains, describing the ritual and front of a river, holding a disc in the life of Mahavira, the 24th each hand depicting Chandra Tirthankara. It is often and Surya, inscriptions in accompanied by the equally devanagari below, three lines of important non canonical devanagari on the reverse 260 x Kalakacharyakatha (Story of 190mm Left border pierced and Kalaka). Wear and damage slightly rubbed, minor tears on around edges, various right, inner border somewhat waterstains, some tears, some flaked, slight stain inside border. repaired Reverse a bit rubbed Estimate: £6,000.00 - £8,000.00 Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Lot: 222 Lot: 219 A SCENE FROM THE A EUROPEAN WOMAN WITH A RASIKAPRIYA Mewar, BOOK, PROBABLY THE BIBLE Rajasthan, early 18th century Mughal, India, late 17th century Gouache with gold on paper, Ink and gouache on paper, pink Krishna seated with Radha in a floral border, laid on a gold pavilion, surrounded by gardens, painted floral album page, later five lines of devanagari above inscriptions on the reverse in 338 x 238mm (folio) Damaged nastaliq and devanagari 83 x edges, areas of flaking 34mm image; 310 x 203mm particularly in lower portion, laid (page) Mughal artists were on cotton gauze fascinated by western images, Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 and it is likely that this example was copied from an image in a Portuguese Roman Catholic Lot: 223 church or from a book plate. PORTRAIT OF NAWAB ASRAT Areas of rubbing and flaking, KHAN Rajasthan, early 19th stain near top of image and on century Gouache with gold on border, edges of border worn and paper, the portly figure wearing a flaked turban, a rosewater bottle, Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,500.00 dagger and pandan beside him, Nawalgarh stamp on the reverse, other notes in English, including Lot: 220 the identification of the sitter 203 PORTRAIT OF A NOBLEMAN x 137mm Horizontal crease Hyderabad, Deccan, India, 19th across centre, minor flaking century Gouache with gold on Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 paper, laid on card 280 x 198mm Top right hand corner crease, otherwise good Lot: 224 Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,000.00 GHAMAND CHAND OF KANGRA (1751-1774) WITH AN OFFICIAL Kangra, early 19th century Gouache with gold on paper, the two menwearing Lot: 221 shawls and turbans, pink border, SIXTY-SEVEN PAGES FROM A inscribed in devanagari on the DISPERSED JAIN reverse, with later English KALPASUTRA MANUSCRIPT translation reading 'Shri Raja Gujarat, Western India, 15th Ghamand Chand of Kangra'. 180 century Ink with gouache and x 120mm main image Minor gold on paper, in horizontal rubbing and flaking, a few stains format, each with seven lines of near bottom devanagari script on each side in Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 black ink, with red punctuation, many leaves with illustrations in gold, red and blue, mostly depicting Jina figures, further

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Lot: 225 inscribed 200 x 280mm (main A SCENE FROM THE LIFE OF image) Creasing and flaking KRISHNA Mewar, Rajasthan, especially on border and near 18th century Gouache with gold edges on paper, depicting Krishna and Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 his companions sleeping while a fire encircles them, inscribed in devanagari in gold at the top, six Lot: 230 lines of devanagari under a title FOUR DRAWINGS OF RULERS on the reverse 160 x 317mm Pahari, circa 1800 Ink with (main image) Worn and flaking gouache on paper, three with creases especially on right depicted smoking a huqqa, the side other seated on a cushion and Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 inscribed in devanagari 205 x 170mm and smaller (4) Each stained and discoloured, three Lot: 226 with trimmed edges THE GOPIS PAY THEIR Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 RESPECTS TO KRISHNA Central India, 17th century Gouache with gold on paper, the Lot: 231 god depicted on a stool, while the TWO LEAVES FROM A gopis bring offerings, with men RAGAMALA SERIES Probably sitting around a bonfire behind, Mewar, 17th century Gouache two lines of devanagari on top with gold on paper, one depicting border 210 x 180mm (main two women conversing in a image) Worm damage, stains palace, vestiges of a preparatory and losses around border drawing on the reverse, the other Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 depicting a woman feeding a bird in a palace courtyard, each with three lines of devanagari text 160 Lot: 227 x 115mm approx each (2) Both A RULER SMOKING A HUQQA worn, with flaking, frayed edges Pahari, early 19th century and one or two holes Gouache with gold on paper, the Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 figure depicted kneeling, with bow and arrows beside him 215 x 117mm Smudged area near Lot: 232 bottom, one or two small A RAGAMALA PAINTING, retouched areas of damage PROBABLY AHIRI RAGINI Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 Sirohi, Rajasthan, late 17th century Gouache with gold on paper, inscriptions in devanagari Lot: 228 on both sides, a further A LADY IN HER BEDCHAMBER inscription in Islamic script at the Bikaner, late 17th century top 220 x 147mm (main image) Gouache with gold on paper, the Flaking and fraying especially lady reclining on a charpoy, a around borders, patches of woman and small girl caressing retouching her, laid on a trimmed album Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 page 202 x 110mm Wrinkled, rubbed and flaking in places, tear at bottom Lot: 233 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 GAURI RAGINI Pahari, probably Kangra, early 19th century Gouache with gold on paper, laid Lot: 229 onto a backing sheet 175 x A PRINCE VISITS A SHRINE TO 155mm Gauri is described by KRISHNA Mandi, circa 1700 Ebeling as 'with body fair of Gouache on paper, the ruler colour...in her hand she takes a shown at different stages of his cluster of wishing tree flowers'. devotions, accompanied by She sits in the tree exuding attendants, musicians and fellow sadness and loneliness, with two devotees, inscribed in centre and peacocks for company. Slight top margin in devanagari, the rubbing, flaking on borders, reverse and fly sheet also generally good

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Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 noted. I can never get tired of seeing this piece of real fine art by an expert's brush and pen. Lot: 234 The more I see it, the more I like HOLI CELEBRATIONS Bundi or it. M. Jussuf Khan, Rampur, 10th Kotah, late 18th century Ink and July 1950. watercolour on paper, laid on Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 modern card 209 x 304mm Edges frayed in places and trimmed, three repaired corners, Lot: 237 some creasing and staining VIEW OF THE DIWAN I KHAS Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Company School, Delhi, India, 1859 Gouache with gold on paper, inscribed and dated in nastaliq at the bottom (later Lot: 235 translation in English below and A SCENE FROM THE GITA on reverse), mounted 150 x GOVINDA Mewar, Rajasthan, 213mm The translation reads: India, mid-17th century Gouache 'throne hall interior, Diwani-Khas, with gold on paper, three lines of Delhi 1859, 'If there is a Heaven devanagari at the top, a further upon Earth, it is here, it is here'. line on the reverse 240 x 190mm Slight creasing, small tear on left (folio) Provenance: Spink and border Son, London, 1980s. The Gita Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 GOVINDA by Jayadeva was written at the beginning of 12th century and tells of Krishna and Radha's amorous escapades. Lot: 238 This scene is the moment when A SIKH OR RAJPUT WARRIOR Radha spots Krishna flirting with Rajasthan, India, 18th century Ink the gopis. For a related page in and gouache on paper, the man the British Museum, see Roda wearing a turban and long beard, Ahluwalia, 'Rajput Painting', holding a bow and arrow, a London 2008, p.52. Areas of tulwar and quiver attached to his flaking especially around edges, belt, faint devanagari inscription some retouching. Trimmed above, mounted 195 x 120mm edges. Various very small holes. Original page damaged around Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 edges, laid on second sheet, some staining Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Lot: 236 PORTRAIT OF JAI SINGH OF AMBER (1625-1667) Jaipur, Lot: 239 Rajasthan, India, 19th century PORTRAIT OF AURANGZEB Gouache with gold on paper, Mughal India, 18th century Ink from an album, the ruler depicted with touches of watercolour on eating a melon with his consort paper, wearing jewelled turban on a terrace, surrounded by and pointed beard, mounted 140 female attendants, with double x 108mm approx Edges flyleaf inscribed in devanagari trimmed, laid on later card, paper and English 320 x 220mm slightly stained (image) The English inscription Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 reads: 'This picture belongs to the Abdussalam collection of my grandfather. It is of Raja Jai Lot: 240 Singh of Jaipur. Sakai Maha Raja WOMEN IN A PALACE Kangra, Jai Singh died in 1667 in Deccan, Punjab Hills, India, early 19th having been poisoned by his son century Gouache on paper, Kirat Singh, probably at the probably from a Ragamala instigation of Aurangzeb. In this series, depicting a lady receiving picture Raja Jai Singh is a visitor, while a mother feeds speaking to Jha Ram. The her baby in a nearby pavilion 180 painting is by the brush of Govind x 270mm (image) Some Ram. It is one of the best creasing, flaking and minor paintings in the Abdussalam retouching collection, rich colours and Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 extremely fine brush-work to be

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Lot: 241 Lot: 245 A GROUP OF DRAWINGS PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG Northern India, 18th/19th century PRINCE Provincial Mughal, 18th Ink on paper, some with century Gouache with gold on gouache, mostly preparatory paper, laid on silver flecked sketches of rulers or deities 240 x mount, inscribed in devanagari 307mm and smaller (18) Most in on the reverse 190 x 140mm fragmentary condition, with (main image) Rubbing especially varying degrees of tearing and at top, various stains, small tear staining near bottom Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00

Lot: 242 Lot: 246 A MISCELLANEOUS A SANSKRIT MANUSCRIPT OF COLLECTION OF THE RAMAYANA Northern India, MANUSCRIPT PAGES Northern circa 1860 Ink, gouache and gold India, 18th century and later Ink on paper, in scroll form, the text and gouache on paper, thirteen interspersed with approximately in devanagari, three in nastaliq, six miniatures 9.5m long approx x probably from a dispersed copy 90mm wide For a related scroll, of a Shahnama 334 x 240mm see Bonhams London, 2 October and smaller (16) Each damaged 2012, lot 203 Illumination and to greater or lesser extent, miniatures in mostly fragmentary Islamic leaves in very condition, text mostly good fragmentary condition. Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 247 Lot: 243 AN ILLUSTRATED PALM LEAF GAURI RAGINI Jaipur, EDITION OF THE RAMAYANA Rajasthan, India, circa 1800 Orissa, Eastern India 135 leaves Gouache with ink and gold on each pierced in the centre for paper, the woman walking binding, inscribed with ink on through the forest, holding a each with six lines of Oriya, 62 garland and floral sprig, the trees illustrations, twin ebony covers alive with monkeys, four lines of 45 x 265mm (average leaf size) devanagari above 222 x 140mm For two Orissan palm leaf pages Minor flaking and retouching from a kamasutra in the National Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 Gallery of Victoria, Australia, see John Guy, 'Palm Leaf and Paper: Illustrated Manuscripts of India Lot: 244 and South East Asia' no. 10. SIX PAINTED CARDS FOR THE Some discolouration, wear and INTERPRETATION OF damage to leaves, mostly around DREAMS Pahari, early 19th edges, losses to one cover century Gouache and ink on Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 card, the larger two depicting a warrior and a house of rectangular form, the smaller of Lot: 248 arched form, each depicting a THREE SRI NATH JI princely figure or deity, each PAINTINGS Nathadwara, inscribed on the reverse 130 x Rajasthan, India, 19th century 100mm and smaller (6) Each Gouache with silver and gold on with wear, discolouration and paper, the larger showing the flaking enshrined deity flanked by Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 devotees in a shrine, the other two with Sri Nath Ji standing with offerings on the ground in front, framed 203 x 147mm and smaller (3) Mostly good Estimate: £350.00 - £450.00

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Lot: 249 Lot: 253 A PAINTED WOOD A SCENE, PROBABLY FROM BOOKCOVER Northern India, THE BHAGAVATA PURANA second half 19th century With an Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 18th erotic scene, set in a palace, the century Gouache with gold on reverse with vestiges of a floral paper, depicting Krishna design 32 x 23cm Provenance: returning with Lakshmana to the Private Collection, London In two waiting Radha, stopping to pieces, one with two cracks, acknowledge a devotee, while a generally somewhat worn, man brings him water 306 x chipped and scratched, paintwork 223mm Provenance: Private on reverse mostly lost Collection, London Areas of Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 water staining, flaking and rubbing Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00

Lot: 250 FIVE DOUBLE SIDED Lot: 254 PAINTINGS OF HINDU DEITIES TWO PAINTINGS OF A PRIEST Rajasthan, 18th/19th century AT A KRISHNA SHRINE Gouache on paper, most labelled Nathdwara, Rajasthan, 19th in devanagari, including century Gouache with gold and Hanuman, Krishna, Ganesha silver on paper, one depicting the Durga and Siva, probably part of priest lustrating a row of Sri Nath an educational manual 170mm Ji images, various offerings in square approx Provenance: front, the other depicting the Private Collection, London same priest with the unadorned Damaged edges, some tears and images, holding a chauri, both staining paintings with descriptive labels, Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 one with another fragmentary drawing on the reverse, mounted on card 175 x 250mm approx Lot: 251 each Provenance: Private KAMADENU,THE WISH- Collection, London Some FULFILLING GODDESS Kotah, staining, rubbing and creasing late 18th century Gouache with Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 gold on paper, with head of a bejewelled maiden, twin sets of peacock wings, camel head tail Lot: 255 and peacock head feet 240 x THREE FOLK PAINTINGS 163mm This is a more unusual Rajasthan, India, 19th century Ink form of the goddess, who is and watercolour on paper, generally represented simply as comprising a paper gaming a cow, or a cow with human head board, a cosmic chart and a and breasts. This form is thought medical diagram(?) 390 x 230mm to have been influenced by Buraq and smaller (3) Provenance: in Islamic tradition, who Private Collection, London Each conveyed the prophet to and worn, creased and damaged from the holy sites. Waterstains Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 in lower half, some creasing, rubbing and flaking, edges trimmed Lot: 256 Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 TWO PAIRS OF FRAMENTARY BOOK BINDINGS India, 19th century One polychrome painted Lot: 252 papier mâché with floral design, A CRIMINAL UNDER ARREST the accompanying panel lined Folk painting, Probably Bengal, with printed cotton and a print of circa 1900 Gouache on paper, Ganesha, the others of prisoner in chains, flanked by a embossed leather with gilt pair of officers 274 x 203mm arabesque design 30 x 15cm; Provenance: Private Collection, 26 x 16cm (2) Provenance: London Rubbed and scratched, Private Collection, London Each trimmed into oval form damaged, some worm holes Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00

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Lot: 257 Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 TWO JAIN PAINTINGS Western India, 18th/19th century Gouache on paper, one depicting a Jina Lot: 261 flanked by elephants bearing A LADY CARRYING A RUMAL chauris, the other depicting Probably Hyderabad, Deccan, Parsvanatha flanked by a pair of Southern India, circa 1800 nagas, a devotee and cobra at Gouache with gold on paper, laid his feet, his head sheltered by on an album page, nastaliq multiple cobras, the surface inscription in a panel in the lower spattered with puja powder 212 left corner 120x 72mm (image) x 121mm, 137 x 130mm (2) Minor rubbing, generally good Provenance: Private Collection, Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 London Each with stains, cracks and flaking, the smaller with damaged lower right corner Lot: 262 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 DRAWING OF A PRINCE Mughal, India, late 18th century Ink with touches of watercolour Lot: 258 on paper, earlier pin drawing TWO HINDU IMAGES Eastern underneath 160 x 140mm India, 19th century Ink, gouache Somewhat stained and wrinkled, on paper, comprising a drawing a bit damaged at edges of Siva and Durga with a lingam, Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 a prone figure and two braziers below flanked by a pair of dogs, and a folk painting possibly Lot: 263 connected with the Jagannatha A SIKH NOBLEMAN Punjab, cult 260 x 230mm and smaller (2) India, second half 19th century Provenance: Private Collection, Gouache with gesso and gold on London The former with various card, riding on horseback stains, holes and creased, the accompanied by three latter cut out of a larger sheet attendants, inscription in Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 devanagari on lower border 350 x 250mm Slight rubbing, outer edges with some damage and Lot: 259 waterstaining BRONZE FIGURE OF A TAMIL Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 SAGE South India, 19th century Seated in sattvasana on a turtle, a kalasa nearby, his hands in Lot: 264 vitarka mudra, wearing beard and A PORTRAIT OF RANJIT SINGH elaborate headdress, an (1786-1839) Probably Delhi, circa identifying label in Tamil on the 1860 Gouache with gold, on turtle's head 7cm high ivory, the ruler depicted richly Provenance: Private Collection, jewelled, seated on cushions in a London palace, a sword at his side, Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 gardens in the background, in qatamkari frame of later date 130 x 98mm Ranjit Singh, founder of Lot: 260 the unified Sikh state in the TWO SCENES OF FESTIVE Punjab, was not enthusiastic REVELRY Bundi, 18th century about being depicted in portraits Gouache and gesso on paper, chiefly because of his loss of the probably showing the holi use of one eye to smallpox as a festival, one depicting jars of child. Towards the end of his life, turmeric being emptied over however, portraits start to dancing crowds in front of a appear, one of the earliest being palace, the other showing piles of a painting in the Chester Beatty food in baskets and men climbing Library, Dublin, dating from the up ropes in front of a similar mid-1830s. See W.G.Archer, building, 290 x 160mm (2) 'Paintings of the Sikhs' London Provenance: Private Collection, 1966, pl.15. Slightly marked in London Areas of flaking places, especially around edges. especially lower portion, edges Has been glued to later velvet damaged backing.

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Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 Lot: 268 A PORTRAIT OF SERFOJI II OF TANJORE (1777-1832) Tamil Lot: 265 Nadu, South India, circa 1830 MATSYA AVATARA Bikaner, Gouache and gold with gesso on Rajasthan, India, 18th century wood panel, sumptuously Gouache with gold on paper, the dressed, seated in a classical fish avatar of Vishnu, holding an palace with his consort asura, Brahma in the background Muktambai 70 x 87cm Serfoji 192 x 110mm (image) The story Raja Bhonsle Chattrpathi was the is told of how Matsya recovers last absolute ruler of Tanjore the Vedas from the demon (Thanjavur)and is credited with Shankasura which had been ruling over one of the most taken from Brahma, and hidden prosperous and enlightened at the bottom of the sea. Brahma states of India at the time. His watches the episode from the descendants have continued as shore, awaiting the return of the titular Maharajas to this day. sacred texts. Crease and flaking Areas of severe flaking and in top left corner, small stain losses, patches of retouching towards bottom, edges trimmed Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,500.00

Lot: 269 Lot: 266 WITHANIA SOMNIFERA SIX PAINTINGS OF INDIAN Company school, Calcutta, late CHARACTERS Company 18th century Gouache on thick School, Trichinopoly, South India, watercolour paper, from a album, second half 19th century the edges gilt, inscribed Gouache on mica, the scenes 'askanda' and numbered at the comprising a shepherd with his bottom 480 x 325mm Withania flock, a woman taking an offering Somnifera, a member of the to the temple, a woman serving nightshade family, grows in drier toddy to resting labourers, a parts of India, and is cultivated soldier being massaged, basket for uses in Ayurvedic medicine. makers and a ploughman, each The depiction of natural history framed 115 x 160mm and smaller subjects is particularly associated (6) Mostly good, apart from one with Calcutta, a tradition which or two areas of minor flaking owes much to Sir Elijah and Lady Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Impey in the eighteenth century. Lord Wellesley's foundation of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens in Lot: 267 1786 led to even more such SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF paintings being commissioned. KRISHNA Orissa, late 19th Minor marks, especially around century Pigment on cloth, of edges, generally good rectangular form, the central trio Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 of roundels depicting Krishna with Kuvalayapida, standing playing the flute on the cobra Lot: 270 Kaliya and raising Mount A HUNTING SCENE Bikaner, Govardhana, surrounded by a early 17th century Gouache on border of small roundels paper, a prince and nobleman on depicting further scenes 156 x horseback perusing antelope, 90cm Worn and flaking, accompanied by attendants and damaged edges dogs, framed 170 x 362mm Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 inside mount Provenance: Property of a Retired Diplomat, acquired in India during the 1950s Considerable losses around edges, areas of flaking and worm damage Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00

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Lot: 271 Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 A WOMAN ON TERRACE Lucknow, 18th century Gouache with gold on paper, wearing Lot: 275 diaphanous robes, fringed with SIX PAINTINGS PROBABLY gold brocade, a forest in the FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES background, framed 197 x Amber, Rajasthan, India, 18th 130mm Provenance: Property of century Gouache with silver and a Retired Diplomat, acquired in gold on paper, each with India during the 1950s Colours devanagari inscription at the top, somewhat faded, areas of flaking depicting a prince and princess especially towards bottom, some going riding, a princess having worm damage near centre her feet massaged, a prince Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 leading his lover to his bedchamber, the prince embracing his lover in a pavilion, Lot: 272 and the princess sitting on a A DANCING COURTESAN bough listening to her lover Bikaner, early 18th century playing music, individually framed Gouache with gold on paper, the 188 x 125mm each (6) woman wearing a diaphanous Provenance: Property of a robe, fringed with gold brocade, Retired Diplomat, acquired in watched by a stork, framed 187 x India during the 1950s Some 122mm (within mount) rubbing and flaking, one or two Provenance: Property of a slightly stained Retired Diplomat, acquired in Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 India during the 1950s Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 Lot: 276 A COURTESAN ON A Lot: 273 TERRACE Probably Bikaner, KRISHNA VENUGOPALA India, early 18th century Bikaner, Rajasthan, India, 18th Gouache with gold on paper, the century Gouache with gold on woman drinking from a Chinese paper, Krishna as a young man porcelain cup and flask 163 x playing his flute while standing on 91mm within mount Provenance: a lotus in the river, his left hand Property of a Retired Diplomat, resting on a cow, framed 206 x acquired in India during the 115mm (main image) 1950s Small tear in centre, Provenance: Property of a otherwise mostly good Retired Diplomat, acquired in Estimate: £600.00 - £900.00 India during the 1950s Slight rubbing and staining, generally good Lot: 277 Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 SCENE FROM THE LIFE OF KRISHNA Bikaner, Rajasthan, India, circa 1700 Gouache with Lot: 274 silver and gold on paper, Krishna KRISHNA AND RADHA AT depicted swimming with the gopis NIGHT Rajasthan, probably and later in audience at the Amber, 18th century Gouache palace, framed 225 x 303mm with silver and gold on paper, the (image) Provenance: Property of couple depicted outside their a Retired Diplomat, acquired in rustic hut, and later engaged in India during the 1950s Minor lovemaking, inscribed in holes and flaking around edges, devanagari above, framed 265 x slight wrinkling, generally good 293mm Provenance: Property of Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 a Retired Diplomat, acquired in India during the 1950s Red border has been repainted; a white panel has been painted over the details of lovemaking, probably for reasons of modesty, although some of this has been removed. Border damaged in places

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Lot: 278 Lot: 281 DESAKHA RAGINI Bikaner, PORTRAIT OF A NOBLEMAN Rajasthan, late 17th century Lucknow, India, 1830-40 Gouache with gold on paper, Gouache with gesso and gold on depicting five acrobats in an paper, the ruler seated on octagonal exercise ground in a cushions in his palace, forest with mountains, temples surrounded by courtiers 382 x and a sunset in the distance, 300mm Edges trimmed, losses framed 255 x 155mm (within and worm damage around mount) Provenance: Property of edges, minor staining, some a Retired Diplomat, acquired in rubbing India during the 1950s Good Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00

Lot: 282 Lot: 279 A LADY AT HER TOILET PETITIONS AT COURT Lucknow,India, circa 1830 Lucknow, India, circa 1770 Gouache with gesso and gold on Gouache with gold on paper, a card, the lady on a terrace by a young prince in a colonnaded hall river with a female attendant, a being presented with a written city on the far bank, gilt request by a nobleman while embossed floral border 340 x another waits, the emperor, 232mm Rubbing and slight probably Aurangzeb, and two discolouration, border and edges noblemen watch from a balcony damaged behind, framed 180 x 325mm Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,500.00 (within mount) Provenance: Property of a Retired Diplomat, acquired in India in the 1950s. Lot: 283 The predominance of white and SULTAN IBRAHIM VISITED BY minimal use of blue is typical of ANGELS Probably Bikaner, this later Mughal period, when Rajasthan, late 18th century power spread out to provincial Gouache with gold on paper, the courts such as Oudh. For two man sleeping agains a tree, while other court scenes of similar three angels walk and one flies date, see Stephen Markel et al.: towards him, bearing gifts, red 'The Art of Courtly Lucknow', Los border, inscribed with three lines Angeles 2010, p.183 Tears on if devanagari on the reverse 332 left and lower right, areas of x 250mm Slightly faded, some flaking, small area of staining water staining and creases, Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 damaged edges Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 Lot: 280 A PORTRAIT PROBABLY OF Lot: 284 SHAH JAHAN Lucknow, mid- RADHA CALLS UP TO 18th century Gouache with gold KRISHNA IN THE PALACE on paper, the ruler on a throne in Probably Bundi, Rajasthan, India, a garden, wearing a golden 17th century Gouache with gold turban with halo, jewelled parasol on paper, red border, various above, an archer' ring on his notes mostly later on the reverse thumb, framed 162 x 90mm 263 x 197mm Some flaking, (within mount) Provenance: damage and losses to out edges, Property of a Retired Diplomat, trimmed acquired in India during the Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 1950s Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00

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Lot: 285 Lot: 290 A WOMAN BRINGS LOVERS AT NIGHT TIME OFFERINGS TO AN ELDERLY Bikaner, Rajasthan, India, 18th ASCETIC Mughal, India, first half century Gouache with gold on 18th century Gouache with gold paper, the couple in erotic on paper, the grey haired embrace on a charpoy under the mainleaning on a shoulder rest, night sky 205 x 141mm Edges seated on a tiger skin outside his trimmed, various minor stains hut at night 172 x 117mm and creases Trimmed edges, areas of worm Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,500.00 damage, especially to right corner Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 Lot: 291 LOVERS IN A BEDCHAMBER Lot: 286 Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, mid- LOVERS IN A PALACE Bikaner, 19th century Gouache with gold Rajasthan, India, 18th century on card, the couple in erotic Gouache with gold on paper, laid embrace 122 x 155mm Areas of on an album page, the couple in flaking, top right corner damaged erotic embrace, while a female Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 attendant watches in the wings 192 x 137mm (image) Areas of flaking and rubbing, tear and worm damage on border, collection stamps and notes on Lot: 292 SALIM CHISHTI INSTRUCTS the reverse THE YOUNG JEHANGIR Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 Mughal, India, late 17th century Pin drawing on paper with ink, laid on an album page, inscribed Lot: 287 in nastaliq at the bottom, modern LOVERS ON A TERRACE typed description in English 143 x Probably Sirohi, Rajasthan, India, 108mm Somewhat discoloured, circa 1700 Gouache with gold on damaged edges paper, black painted border, the Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 princely couple in erotic embrace 217 x 124mm (image) Flaking, small tear and worm damage, mostly on border, trimmed edges Lot: 293 FOUR MANUSCRIPT FOLIOS Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 Marwar, Rajasthan, circa 1780 Gouache, ink and gold on paper 220 x 150mm each (4) Some Lot: 288 damage, mostly around edges PRINCELY LOVERS Jaipur, Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 early 19th century Gouache with gold on paper, the couple in erotic embrace in a sumptuous canopied bed on a terrace at night 235 x 163mm Edges trimmed, small areas of flaking, Lot: 294 some retouched A JAIN SVETAMBARA MONK Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 Bikaner, Rajasthan, India, early 19th century Gouache with silver on paper, the figure seated on a Lot: 289 terrace, his brush beside him, six lines of devanagari on the LOVERS ON A TERRACE reverse 152 x119mm The monks Rajasthan, late 18th/early 19th of the Svetambara sect of century Gouache with gold on Jainism wear as their name paper, the couple in erotic implies, white robes, while the embrace on a rug in front of a other main group, the Digambara pavilion 198 x 150mm Reduced, (sky clad) are naked. The brush slight damage to lower edge is to remove any insects or small Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 animals from their path to avoid killing them. Very small retouched spot in sky, otherwise good Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00

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Lot: 295 trimmed edges LOVERS IN A PALACE Northern Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 India, 19th/20th century Gouache on paper, the couple engaged in acrobatic lovemaking 208 x Lot: 300 163mm Slight discolouration A SCENE FROM THE Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 RAMAYANA: RAMA'S EXILE BEGINS Kashmir, Northern India, 19th century Gouache with gold on paper, the trio of Krishna, Lakshmana and Radha being watched by crowds in the city as Lot: 296 they head off into the forest, a MAHARAJA TAKHAT SINGH line of devanagari at the top 160 (r.1843-74) CELEBRATING HOLI x 226mm Paper somewhat Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, mid- wrinkled, some flaking especially 19th century Gouache with gold around floral border on paper, a line of devanagari at Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 the top 285 x 197mm The inscription reads: 'Maharajaji Takhat Singh Ji' Some flaking, mostly around edges, some Lot: 301 retouching to white background SCENE FROM THE Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 MAHABHARATA Jaipur, Rajasthan, circa 1820 Gouache with gold on paper, depicting Arjuna as a woman with his Lot: 297 brother Nakula at the court of SCENE FROM THE KHAMSA E Virata 200 x 300mm (image) In NIZAMI OF DEHLAVI Bukhara, the fourth book of the Uzbekistan, 17th century Mahabharata,Virata Parvati, live Gouache with gold on paper, 17 incognito in the territory of King lines of nastaliq on the reverse Virata Minor flaking, generally 197 x 111mm Amir Khusrow good Dehlavi (1253-1325) was one of Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,500.00 the greatest poets and musicians of the Delhi Sultanate era. Minor flaking and retouching, trimmed edges Lot: 302 Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 MAHARAJA MAN SINGH (1818- 1843) CELEBRATING HOLI Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, c.1840 Gouache with silver and Lot: 298 gold on paper, the ruler and his A SHAHNAMA FOLIO Delhi or female companion in a palace Kashmir, India, early 19th century courtyard, with window opening Gouache, ink and gold on paper, to reveal a forest beyond 300 x illustrated on one side with a 212mm Some flaking smudging hunting scene, four columns of and retouching, edges trimmed nastaliq script on either side 290 Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 x 192mm Provenance: Phillips London, 14th March 1991, part of lot 345. Margins trimmed, water staining and smudging at top, Lot: 303 remains of old mount glued to top ARUDHAYAUVANA MADHYA section on reverse NAYIKA, FROM A Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 RASIKAPRIYA ALBUM Malware, Central India, circa 1680 Gouache with gold on paper, the lovers embracing in a palace, two Lot: 299 lines of devanagari above 254 SULTAN IBRAHIM VISITED BY x170mm Edges worn and ANGELS Lucknow, India, late flaking, minor stains and 18th century Gouache with gold retouching on paper, Ibrahim sleeping by a Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 tree, while four winged angels approach with gifts 280 x 190mm Provenance: Phillips London, 14th March 1991, part of lot 345. Slight wrinkling and flaking,

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Lot: 304 Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 VENERATION OF VISHNU Mewar, 17th or early 18th century Gouache on paper, in horizontal Lot: 309 format, divided into nine panels A LITTLE TERN Calcutta, India, depicting various scenes, circa 1800 watercolour on including a princely couple English paper, the bird depicted worshipping Vishnu in the centre on a riverbank, inscribed 200 x 395mm Wrinkled in 'Cowrina' in top right corner, places, areas of flaking and mounted and framed 370 x repainting to damaged patches 260mm Private Collection, Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 London Good Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00

Lot: 305 A DRAWING OF AURANGZEB Lot: 310 Mughal, circa 1800 Ink with A RUDDY TURNSTONE gouache and gold on paper, laid Calcutta, India, circa 1800 onto an album page with gold watercolour on English paper, the painted and flecked borders, bird depicted in a riverbank, stamped on bottom right corner inscribed 'currilah' in the top right 167 x 74mm Paper slightly corner, mounted and framed 375 smudged, marked and creased x 260mm Private Collection, Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 London Slight fixing, otherwise good Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 Lot: 306 INDIAN MONUMENTS Delhi, India, circa 1860 Gouache on Lot: 311 ivory, each of oval form, depicting A PIGEON Calcutta, India, circa the Taj Mahal, the Jami Masjid in 1800 watercolour on English Delhi, the tomb of Shaikh Salim paper, the bird depicted perched Chishti, Fatehpur Sikri and the on a branch, inscribed in top right Golden Temple, Amritsar, and corner 'pigeon from New Zeland two convex glass frame covers [sic]', mounted and framed 375 (6) 110 x 163mm and smaller x260mm Private Collection, Provenance: Formerly in a London private collection, Kent, England Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 Slightly rubbed, some mildew Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 Lot: 312 FATH ALI SHAH WITH AN Lot: 307 ATTENDANT British school, 19th A RED WHISKERED BUL BUL century pencil on paper, initialled Calcutta, India, circa 1800 B.G.S., labelled in ink 178 x watercolour on English paper, the 115mm Minor discolouration, bird depicted perched on a otherwise good branch, inscribed 'Changaba' in Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 the top right corner, mounted and framed 375 x 260mm Private Collection, London Very good apart from one or two small spots Lot: 313 of fixing THREE WATERCOLOURS OF Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 EASTERN SUBJECTS 19th century Comprising: A Pair of Cavalry Officers, indistinctly Lot: 308 signed, Two Persian Women with A PAIR OF QUAILS Calcutta, a Child, signed Arthur H., Studio India, circa 1800 watercolour on Decor Teheran 1969, framed, English paper, the two birds and a Caucasian Woman facing each other, each standing inscribed and signed in Russian in a landscape setting, mounted 230 x 330mm and smaller (3) and framed 260 x 375mm Private Generally good Collection, London One or two Estimate: £70.00 - £90.00 small foxed patches, otherwise good

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Lot: 314 Lot: 318 FOUR EMBROIDERED PANELS A SADDLE RUG Tibet, circa Algeria, 18th century set into a 1900 Woven wool pile, decorated folding screen, linen gauze, with a pair of snow lions 67 x embroidered with polychrome 120cm Mostly good silk, the decoration composed of Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 floral arabesques and palmettes 111 x 46cm each screen panel The pieces used in this screen were originally parts of a scarf. There is a similar cloth in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv. 1029-1855. Have Lot: 319 TWO QALAMKARI RUMALS been reduced, some minor wear Masulipatam, South India,19th and fading, frames and velvet century Cotton, polychrome worn. printed and painted, the larger of Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,500.00 square form with reticulated boteh design on crimson ground, a large floral boteh surmounted Lot: 315 by a peacock in each corner, the NINE PHULKARIS Punjab, 20th other of circular form, decorated century Polychrome silk with concentric registers of flower embroidered on russet cotton and boteh motifs 122cm approx ground, each of rectangular form, square; 104cm diam lined with floral and geometric designs, Square textile reduced, restored together with Four Phulkaris, patch, various small holes and Punjab, 20th century, slight stains, lining of circular Polychrome silk embroidered four textile a bit damaged, otherwise on russet, one on black cotton generally good ground, each of rectangular form, Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 with floral and geometric designs (9) "205 x 125cm (average size) and 205 x 125cm (average size) Minor damage, mostly good 400 Lot: 320 A SKIRT OR SHOULDER 600 CLOTH (KAIN SEMBAGI) South Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 India, for the Indonesian Market, circa 1800 Cotton, block printed mordant died, of rectangular Lot: 316 form, made from two lengths, the A PABUJI HANGING Rajasthan, central lobed floral medallion in a 20th century pigment on cloth, of field of faux ikat and foliate rectangular form, the central motifs, framed by scrolling floral register with four figures in borders, a Mughal style row of niches, a row of Hindu deities poppies at either end 222 x above, a black horse with figures 165cm The trade in Indian and animals below 141 x 120cm produced textiles produced for Somewhat worn, one or two the Indonesian markets is less stains, frayed edges familiar than this for the western Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 market, but many illustrate a fascinating blend of Indian and Indonesian influences in just the Lot: 317 same way as European themes A KAYSERI SILK RUG Anatolia, influenced designs on those circa 1900 With pale blue central destined for Britain, Holland and mihrab, surrounded by concentric France. Particularly striking here floral borders 195 x 122cm Worn is the row of delicate Mughal and Slightly faded. Tassels at poppies depicted on the same top, folded back and fixed to tableau as semi abstract ikat Velcro strip motifs. These textiles were Estimate: £120.00 - £150.00 sometimes used as hangings as well as garments. One or two stains, a few small holes and fraying at the edges Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

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Lot: 321 Lot: 324 A SKIRT OR SHOULDER A PICHHAVAI DEPICTING CLOTH (KAIN SEMBAGI) South ANNAKUTA UTSAVA India, for the Indonesian Market, Nathadwara, Rajasthan, 19th early 19th century Cotton, block century Pigment on cloth, Sri printed mordant died, of Nath Ji in the centre, flanked by rectangular form, made from two further images of himself, lengths, the centre with bold copious harvest produced chrysanthemum design arrange in piles and jars in the dominated by a multiple central foreground, surrounded by roundel, hill motifs at either end, further small scenes and a floral surrounded by a border of floral border 143 x 100cm Annakuta is swags 219 x 187cm See note to one of the most important lot 325; the hill motifs and floral festivals, held at the time of swag border are influenced by autumn harvest. It celebrates the designs on pala pores for the Krishna's suggestion to the European market, while the villagers that they offer their vigorous floral forms reflect the produce to Mount Govardhana complex designs favoured in the Generally quite worn Indonesian archipelago Mostly Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 good Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 325 A SHI'ITE CALLIGRAPHIC Lot: 322 QALAMKARI FRIEZE Persia, A SKIRT OR SHOULDER second half 19th century Cotton, CLOTH (KAIN SEMBAGI) South block printed and painted, India, for the Indonesian Market, mounted in three sections, the early 19th century Cotton, block design composed of a horizontal printed mordant died, of series of calligraphic cartouche rectangular form, made from two within scrolling foliate borders 89 lengths, with central tree of life x 168cm The inscription frowning from a mound, flanked celebrates in verse the life of by a pair of waving bamboos, Imam Husain ibn Ali (628-680 surrounded by a border of floral AD), martyred at the battle of swags 245 x 208cm See note to Karbala, October 10, 680 AD lot 325; the overall composition is One or two small stains, originally that of a palampore made for the a single continuous band British market, although the detail Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 and character are strongly Indonesian. One or two minor holes and stains, mostly good Lot: 326 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 A POLYCHROME PAINTED COTTON HANGING (PICHHAVAI) Rajasthan, India, Lot: 323 circa 1900 Depicting Radha and A SKIRT OR SHOULDER Krishna enthroned in a palace, CLOTH (KAIN SEMBAGI) South seated under an arch of entwined India, for the Indonesian Market, musician couples, a pair of early 19th century Cotton, block peacocks in front, an array of printed mordant died, of coloured glass lamps above, rectangular form, made from two lined 186 x 109cm (without lining) lengths, the leafy trellis design Somewhat worn and flaked, surrounding a central floral slight smudging and staining roundel, surrounded by multiple Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 borders, including repeated irises within arcaded niches 203 x 154cm See note to lot 325; there is a more strongly Mughal flavour to this textile, the trellis field is reminiscent of Mughal wood or marble ceilings. One or two minor holes and stains, mostly good Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

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