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Fine Oriental manuscripts and miniatures : comprising Mughal, Deccani and Rajasthani miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including eight Mughal and Deccani miniatures from an album collected by Sir Thomas Phillipps ; an illustration to the Razmnama, Mughal, c. 1616 ; seven ragamala illustrations, Deccan, first quarter of the eighteenth century ; a hunting expedition, Jaipur, c. 1840 ; a prince and his entourage out hunting crocodile, Uniara, c. 1760 ; Pahari miniatures from the 17th to 19th century, including Radha and Krishna playing backgammon, Basohli, c. 1760 ; an illustration to the Rasika priya, Kangra, c. 1820-25 ; a portrait of Maharaja Kirat Singh, Kashtwar, c. 1700 ; an illustration to the Bhagavata purana, Basohli, c. 1760-65 ; a collection of Chinese drawings on paper and rice paper, including an album of twenty coloured drawings of exotic butterflies and insects, Canton, 1805-10 ; calligraphy and illumination from the 10th to 20th century ; Persian miniatures from the 15th to 19th century ; Persian lacquer pen-boxes and mirror-cases, including a pen-box signed by Lutf-Ali, Qajar, dated 1858 ; Arabic, Indian, Persian and Turkish manuscripts and printed books, including an illuminated Qur'an section, Ottoman, early sixteenth century ; the Dufferin and Ava Shahnama, illustrated with fifty-eight miniatures in the Timurid style, Shiraz, dated 1436 and 1437 ; Min Kalam Ali Ibn al-Husain (Sayings of Ali), Arabic manuscript written in alternating lines of gold and black naskhi script, Persia, c. 1520-30 ; Tashrih Mansuri (a treatise on the anatomy of the human body) illustrated with six diagrams, Persia, seventeenth century |
