Framed Watercolour Painting

The group comprising two complete bowls with geometric ornament; three partial stems, also decorated to varying degrees; together with other miscellaneous items. 98 grams total, 25-48 mm



Ex an important Dutch collection; acquired on the European art market in the 1970s. Property of a Ruislip, UK, gentleman, by inheritance.

Comprising two designs in relief including three horses in an enclosure and two animals, likely cats, fighting; coloured glazes. 1.26 kg total, 10 x 9 - 9.5 x 10.2 in.



Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. East Anglian private collection.

The tile production increased in the second half of the sixteenth century and during the following centuries. The fragments discovered from various localities (pot-tiles, rectangular, triangular and trapezoidal panels, open-work crest tiles) were all produced in regional workshops, from the end of the 15th century or at the beginning of the 16th century. They all had diverse decorative motifs, mainly animals and geometrical or vegetal combinations, almost all of them singular finds for this study area.

Showing two women sitting against a cushion, the figure on the left with her arm around the figure on the right, offering her a drink from a small cup, a third woman bending over a table set with ewers and cups, three men in the foreground, two of them playing musical instruments; mounted in a reveal and a glazed wooden frame. 1.1 kg, 39.5 x 30.5 cm

Very fine condition.

Acquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s. The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art.