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Catalogue of fine Oriental miniatures, manuscripts and Qajar paintings : including Company school natural history drawings, Mughal miniatures from the 16th to 19th century, including a leaf from a manuscript of the Tuti Nama, c. 1570-80 ; the army of Sultan Mahmud storming the fortress of Bhim, c. 1585-90 ; Deccani, central Indian, Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures from the 15th to 19th century, including a portrait of Abdullah Qutb Shah, Golconda c. 1650-60 ; a portrait of Raja Arjun Singh, Kotah, c. 1720-25 ; four maidens worshipping Devi, Mandi, c. 1820 ; Persian miniatures from the 15th to 19th century, including the Prophet 'Ali, by Farhad, a leaf from a manuscript of the Khawaran Nama of Ibn Husam, Turkman, dated 881/1476-7 ; a prince returning from a hunting expedition, Qazwin, c. 1580 ; Qajar paintings, including two portraits of female musicians in the style of Abu'l-Qasim, c. 1820 ; a portrait of Muhammad Mirza, by Sayyid Mirza, c. 1829 ; a young lady holding a cup of wine, c. 1820 ; the Virgin and the Child attributed to Muhammad Hasan, c. 1820 ; a young couple standing arm in arm, c. 1840 ; a legendary warrior, mid-nineteenth century ; Arabic, Indian, Persian and Turkish manuscripts and calligraphy, including two Qur'an leaves on blue vellum, Arabic ninth century ; a Qur'an section, Andalucia or North Africa, thirteenth-fourteenth century ; an illustrated Yusuf u Zulaykha by Firdausi, Baghdad or Shiraz, c. 1450 ; an album of Mughal portraits, Golconda, c. 1700 ; an illustrated Shahid u Mashud by Muhammad Azima, Delhi or Murshidabad, dated 1164/1750 ; Persian lacquer, including a fine mirror-case executed by Muhammad Ali Ashraf, dated 1169/1756 ; a pen-box by Sayid Mirza, Qajar c. 1820-30 |
