| Corporate Author |
Sotheby's (Firm) |
| Title |
Catalogue of fine Oriental manuscripts, miniatures and Qajar lacquer : comprising a collection of Company school watercolours executed for William Fraser, c. 1810-20 ; a portrait of Bahadur Shah II by Ghulam 'Ali Khan, Company school dated 1838-39 ; Mughal miniatures from the 16th to the 19th century, including a drawing of an elephant by Nanha, Mughal, c. 1615 ; four illustrations to the Razmnama, Mughal, c. 1598 ; Deccani, central Indian, Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures from the 17th to the 19th century, including a princess choosing jewellery, Kangra, c. 1800-10 ; a pensive princess comforted by two female companions, Basohli, c. 1770-80 ; calligraphy from the 9th to the 20th century, including a blue vellum Qur'an leaf, Qa'rawan, early tenth century ; an illuminated Qur'an leaf in kufic script, Iraq or Persia, eleventh century ; Persian and Ottoman miniatures from the 15th to the 20th century, including an album page with two Safavid drawings, Isfahan, late sixteenth/early seventeenth century ; a portrait of a youth, attributed to Riza-I Abbasi, Isfahan, early seventeenth century ; Persian, Arabic, Ottoman, Ethiopic, Indian and South-East Asian manuscripts and printed books from the 14th to the 20th century, including Rashid Al-Din's Jami al-Tawarikh (World history), illustrated with one hundred miniatures, written by order of the Il-Khanid ruler Uljaytu at the Rashidiya scriptorium, Tabriz dated 1314 ; an illuminated Qur'an copied by the scribe Mir Munshi, Bukhara, dated 1558 ; Persian lacquer including a pen-box signed by Najaf, Qajar, c. 1840 |
| Publisher |
London : Sotheby's, 1980 |
| Physical desc. |
140 pages ; illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
07/07/1980; 08/07/1980 |
| Property of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Malcolm R. Fraser, a gentleman 'from the collection of the late Dr. W.G. Archer, OBE), His Grace the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, and others. |
| Includes a loosely inserted printed list of price estimates. |
| Reference to CB manuscripts: p. 48-52, lots 114-117 (Razmnama [In 55]); p. 79, lot 160 (blue vellum Qur'an leaf [Is 1405]). |
| Date & place of sale |
Monday 7 & Tuesday 8 July 1980, London |
| Person as subject |
Fraser, Malcolm R. -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Archer, W. G. (William George) 1907-1979 -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Hamilton and Brandon -- Duke of -- Art collections -- Catalogs |
| Corporate name |
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland -- Catalogs |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 55 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1405 |
| Qur'an -- Manuscripts -- Catalogs |
| Shahnama -- Illustrations -- 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, Arab -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ottoman -- Catalogs |
| Painting, Indic -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Arabic -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Persian -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Ethiopic -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Thai -- Catalogs |
| Lacquer and lacquering -- Iran -- Catalogs |
