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Vellum leaf with pricked guidelines for placement of two columns of black-ink text in Ge'ez script with red detailing; recto with nineteen lines of text; verso with text and polychrome painted scene of figures beside a house and distribution of drink. 13 grams, 26.5 x 23.5 cm
Acquired on the New York art market, circa 2000.
Ex central London gallery.
Cf. Wallis, Budge, E.A.W., The miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and The life of Hannâ (Saint Anne), and The magical prayers of ʻAhĕta
Mîkâêl, London, 1900.
With the royal patronage for her cult given by the Gondar’s Kings, Virgin Mary's role as a maker of miracles became predominant and apocalyptic metaphors and narrative gained importance in pictorial representations, such as those in the manuscripts. Her eschatological role continued to evolve until the eighteenth century, when she was portrayed in an icon as a celestial empress.
Group of three silver-coloured metal pendants including Ganesha crouching with a drum between two glass cabochons, above a lotiform disc and a goose in flight, and other types. 91 grams total, 75-79 mm
Property of a South West London gentleman.
Composed of six men wearing turbans, seated in a landscape, text above and below; 17 rows of text to the reverse; mounted in a bifacial reveal and a glazed wooden frame. 1.5 kg, 41.5 x 30.7 cmFine condition.
Acquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s.
The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art.
A mixed group of silver-coloured metal pendants including a brass plaque with calligraphic script on a field of granulated flowers; pentagonal plaque with brass high-relief combat scene, and other types. 112 grams total, 50-62 mm
Property of a South West London gentleman.
Showing figures in an architectural setting, one couple in an intimate embrace in an upper room, a woman walking towards an attendant in a courtyard, carrying a pipe, a man emerging from a doorway; floral border; mounted in a reveal and a glazed wooden frame. 1 kg, 39.5 x 30.5 cmVery fine condition.
Acquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s.
The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art.
Including German 1938 medallion, Church of England Temperance Society and other types. 66 grams total, 23 - 51 mm
Acquired since the 1970s.
From the private collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Mixed group of silver-coloured metal pendants, two with applied peacock images, and other types. 85 grams total, 34-68 mm
Property of a South West London gentleman.
Composed of flat-section figure-of-eight links and discoid pendant with an image of Medusa in relief. 5.46 grams, 46 cm long
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
Mixed group of silver-coloured metal fittings including a hollow-formed model of the Nandi cow and calf, a belt-fastener with pointillé peacocks, and an appliqué of Ganesha. 89 grams total, 51-57 mm
Property of a South West London gentleman.
Mixed group of bronze buttons with heraldic, regimental and other detailing. 253 grams total, 9-31 mm
Found Hertfordshire, UK.
Mixed group of silver-coloured metal pendants including star-and-crescent, dancing Kali, Ganesha and other types. 25 grams total, 20-31 mm
Property of a South West London gentleman.
Shallow trough with basal ring, frieze of applied gold-coloured metal flower motifs with inlaid petals alternating between ruby and turquoise coloured inlays. 692 grams, 21.3 cm wide
Property of a South West London gentleman.