| Corporate Author |
Sotheby's Geneva |
| Title |
Islamic art : manuscripts, miniatures and Qajar lacquer, coins, pottery, metalwork, glass, textiles, arms and armour, rugs and carpets, orientalist paintings, 19th century European decorative arts, jewellery |
| Publisher |
Geneva : Sotheby's, 1985 |
| Physical desc. |
1 volume ; illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 28 cm. |
| Note |
25/06/1985 |
| Reference to CB manuscripts: lot 11 (Blue Qur'an [Is 1405]); lot 14 (Qur'an leaf, 'probably Mosul, c.1310', written in gold; 'Compare with a detached folio written by Ali Bin Muhammad al-Husain al-Alawi, Mosul, 1306-11 in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin [possibly Is 1613]; lot 21 (Qur'an leaf in 'majestic Eastern kufic' [Is 1436]); lot 83 (Khamsa of Nizami: 'The style is a less refined version of that of the Chester Beatty (formerly Schulz) Nizami of 1463' [Per 137]. |
| Annotated and bookmarked. |
| Held in CB Archive. |
| Date & place of sale |
Tuesday 25 June 1985, Geneva |
| Subject |
Qur'an -- Manuscripts -- Catalogs |
| Shahnama -- Illustrations -- Catalogs |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1405 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1436 |
| Chester Beatty Library |
| Islamic art -- Catalogs |
| Islamic decorative arts -- Catalogs |
| Islamic art objects -- Catalogs |
| Islamic jewelry -- Catalogs |
| Islamic metal-work -- Catalogs |
| Islamic weapons -- Catalogs |
| Islamic pottery -- Catalogs |
| Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mogul Empire -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ottoman -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Arabic -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Persian -- Catalogs |
| Carpets -- Catalogs |
| Islamic rugs -- Catalogs |
| Rugs, Oriental -- Catalogs |
| Rugs, Persian -- Catalogs |
| Lacquer and lacquering -- Iran -- Catalogs |
| Orientalism in art -- Catalogs |
| Islamic coins -- Catalogs |
| Islamic bookbinding -- Catalogs |
| Islamic textile fabrics -- Catalogs |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Sotheby's (Firm) |
