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Catalogue of fine Oriental miniatures, manuscripts and an important Qur'an : comprising Kalighat paintings ; Mughal, Deccani, central Indian miniatures from the 17th to 19th centuries, including a portrait of Shah Jahan receiving his son Prince Dara Shikoh, Golconda, late 17th century ; Krishna riding a composite elephant, Golconda, late 17th century ; Pahari miniatures from the 17th to 19th centuries, including the goddess Kali astride her tiger, Kulu, c. 1750 ; Raja Shermer Sen anointed and praised by courtiers, Mandi, mid 18th century ; Persian and Turkish miniatures from the fifteenth to twentieth century, including several leaves from the Majma al-Tavarikh, Herat, c. 1423 ; a portrait of Sultan Uthman III, Turkey, c. 1755 and a portrait of Nur 'Ali Shah, Qajar, c. 1830-40 ; Arabic, Batak, Burmese, Ethiopic, Indian, Persian and Turkish manuscripts and calligraphy, including a Qur'an by the scribe Yaqut al-Musta'simi, Baghdad dated 681/1282 ; Sa'di's Kulliyat by the scribe Shah Mahmud al-Nishapuri, Persia dated 936/1530 ; Nizami's Khamsa illustrated with thirty-three miniatures attributed to Shah Qasim, Herat, dated 1024/1615 and Hafiz's Diwan, Shiraz, early seventeenth century ; Persian and Indian lacquer, including a casket, provincial Mughal, first half of seventeenth century and a pen-box by Muhammad Isma'il, Qajar, dated 1279/1862 |
