ISLAMIC AND INDIAN ART including The Tipu Sultan Collection Tuesday 21 April 2015 Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Co-Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Andrew McKenzie, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Antony Bennett, Matthew Bradbury, Mike Neill, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Lucinda Bredin, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Peter Rees, Iain Rushbrook, John Sandon, Matthew Girling Global CEO, Andrew Currie, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, Tim Schofield, Veronique Scorer, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Global CEO, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Grant, James Stratton, Roger Tappin, Ralph Taylor, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Geoffrey Davies, Jonathan Horwich, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, Asaph Hyman, Shahin Virani, David Williams, James Knight, Caroline Oliphant, Charles Lanning, Sophie Law, Fergus Lyons, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Hugh Watchorn. Gordon McFarlan, ISLAMIC AND INDIAN ART Tuesday 21 April 2015, at 10.30 101 New Bond Street, London VIEWING BIDS ENQUIRIES CUSTOMER SERVICES Sunday 12 April +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Claire Penhallurick Monday to Friday 8:30 to 18:00 11.00 - 15.00 +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax +44 20 7468 8249 +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Monday 13 - Friday 17 April To bid via the internet please [email protected] 9.00 - 16.30 visit bonhams.com As a courtesy to intending Saturday 18 April bidders, Bonhams will provide a 11.00 - 15.00 Please note that bids should be Matthew Thomas written Indication of the physical Sunday 19 April submitted no later than 16:00 +44 20 7468 8270 condition of lots in this sale if a 11.00 - 15.00 on the day prior to the sale. [email protected] request is received up to 24 Monday 20 April New bidders must also provide hours before the auction starts. 9.00 - 16.30 proof of identity when submitting Oliver White This written Indication is issued bids. Failure to do this may result subject to Clause 3 of the Notice +44 20 7468 8303 Please note that we will be in your bid not being processed. to Bidders. closed on Monday 4 May 2015 [email protected] for the May Bank holiday. Telephone bidding can only be ILLUSTRATIONS accepted on lots with a Rukmani Kumari Rathore Front cover: lot 184 Back cover: lot 157 SALE NUMBER low-estimate in excess of £1000. +44 20 7468 8203 [email protected] Inside front: lot 227 22813 Live online bidding is available Inside back: lot 54 for this sale CATALOGUE Alice Bailey (Consultant) Please email [email protected] IMPORTANT INFORMATION £30.00 with ‘live bidding’ in the subject The United States Government line 48 hours before the auction PRESS ENQUIRIES has banned the import of ivory to register for this service [email protected] into the USA. Lots containing ivory are indicated by the symbol Ф printed beside the lot number in this catalogue. Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Co-Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Andrew McKenzie, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Antony Bennett, Matthew Bradbury, Mike Neill, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Lucinda Bredin, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Peter Rees, Iain Rushbrook, John Sandon, Matthew Girling Global CEO, Andrew Currie, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, Tim Schofield, Veronique Scorer, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Global CEO, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Grant, James Stratton, Roger Tappin, Ralph Taylor, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Geoffrey Davies, Jonathan Horwich, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, Asaph Hyman, Shahin Virani, David Williams, James Knight, Caroline Oliphant, Charles Lanning, Sophie Law, Fergus Lyons, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Hugh Watchorn. 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The third party must present a photographic form of ID when collecting. 1 A FRAGMENTARY LEAF FROM A DISPERSED MONUMENTAL MANUSCRIPT OF THE QUR’AN IN KUFIC SCRIPT ON VELLUM PROBABLY ABBASID, 9TH CENTURY Arabic manuscript on vellum, text written in bold and dispersed kufic script in brown ink with red dots, edges frayed, some holes, stained, framed leaf 240 x 250 mm.; frame 355 x 365 mm. £7,000 - 9,000 €9,500 - 12,000 Comparison can be made with a single leaf (the dimensions of which are 19.5 x 27.2 cm.) of the 9th Century in the Nasser D. Khalili Collec- tion: see F. Déroche, The Abbasid Tradition: Qur’ans of the 8th to the 10th Centuries AD, London 1992, p. 68, no. 20. ISLAMIC AND INDIAN ART | 3 2 • A LARGE ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, BY REPUTE TAKEN FROM Nana Sahib, whose original name was Dhondu Pant, was a Maratha THE BAGGAGE OF NANA SAHIB AFTER HIS DEFEAT IN THE aristocrat, born in Bithoor, adopted son of the last exiled Maratha ruler, MUTINY OF 1857 Peshwa Baji Rao II. In the 1850s he became disenchanted with what SULTANATE INDIA, LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY he regarded as the East India Company’s high-handed policies, as Arabic manuscript on cream-coloured thin paper, 632 leaves, 11 lines well as, more immediately, its revoking the pension he felt he was due to the page written in large and dispersed bihari script, first, sixth and following the defeat and extinction of the Maratha kingdom. In 1857 at eleventh lines on each page written in red ink, remaining lines written Cawnpore (Kanpur) he switched sides, captured the Company’s treas- in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in black, the work Allah ury and declared loyalty to the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah II and and some other significant words picked out in red, gold rosettes that he intended to restore the Maratha kingdom.