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Fine Oriental miniatures, manuscripts and printed books : comprising Mughal, Deccani and central Indian miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including lovers languishing on a terrace after a night of revelry, Lucknow, c. 1750 ; minstrels performing before Humayun, Deccan, c. 1660 ; two Ragamala illustrations, Malwa, c. 1660-80 ; Rajasthani miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including a portrait of Maharao Bhao Singh seated with a courtier, Bundi, c. 1670-80 ; Pahari miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including an illustration to a Tantric Devi series, Basohli, c. 1690-1700 ; a Ragamala illustration, Nurpur, c. 1700 ; calligraphy from the 9th to the 19th century, including an illuminated Qur'an leaf, Mamluk, second half of fourteenth century, and a calligraphic miniature of a lion, Ottoman/Mughal, late sixteenth and seventeenth century ; three Islamic bookcovers including one signed by Amin, South Arabia, fifteenth century ; Persian and Turkish miniatures and paintings from the 15th to the 20th century, including a portrait of a Turkish courtesan, attributed to Vanmour, Turkey, c. 1690-1730; a series of 199 watercolour drawings of Turkish costumes, Turkey, last quarter of eighteenth century ; nineteenth-century Persian and Kashmiri lacquer, including mirror-cases and pen-boxes ; Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian, Ethiopic and South East Asian manuscripts and printed books from the 15th to the 19th century, including Firdausi's Yusuf wa Zulaykha, illustrated with nine miniatures, Shiraz or Baghdad, c. 1450 ; an illuminated Qur'an, North Africa, sixteenth century. |
