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LOT 0285
Islamic Leather Bound Manuscript, Allibab al Maenari by the Philosopher Hussain bin Ali Al-Kashif Al-Baihaqi
18TH CENTURY A.D.
5 1/2 x 9 in. (171 grams, 14 x 23 cm).
Rebound as a hardback with full leather binding, central arabesque foliage panel to covers; 16 laid-paper page; title page with rectangular-red-ink frame and title blocks and panels of naskh text below a triangular panel of scrolled foliage ornament; text pages with red-framed rectangular blocks of black-ink text with red headers, occasional marginal notation, disc stamps to first and last pages.
ProvenanceFrom an important family collection started in the late 1950s.
Property of a West London, UK, gentleman.
The text is the Book of Allibab al Maenari on Philosophy by the Philosopher Hussain bin Ali Al-Kashif Al-Baihaqi; once the property of Judge Ahmed Nazif in Belgrade in the 18th century A.D.
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LOT 0285
Islamic Leather Bound Manuscript, Allibab al Maenari by the Philosopher Hussain bin Ali Al-Kashif Al-Baihaqi
Estimate £1,000 - 1,400€1,160 - 1,620 (for guidance only)$1,350 - 1,890 (for guidance only)
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Old Babylonian Carnelian Frog Amulet on Gold Earring
20th-16th century B.C.Estimate: £1,200 - 1,700 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £667
The frog modelled in the round, pierced at the middle and mounted on an asymmetrical gold hoop, possibly a marriage. 2.45 grams, 29.30 mm
Ex K.J. collection. Acquired on the North American art market, 1999. European private collection. -
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Elamite Silver Beaker with Three Ibexes
Circa 1500-800 B.C.Estimate: £40,000 - 60,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £19,000
Raised from a single sheet with conical body and everted rim, three striding ibexes in repoussè, each with its head held up high and depicted with defined musculature and genitalia; band of ovule decoration above and below, three hanging flowers separating the ibexes; the base with a an eight-petalled flower; late Elamite or Marlik. 153 grams, 12 cm
with Mahboubian Gallery, New York, acquired prior to 1966. Property of a London gentleman. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate no.12161-218632.
This splendid vessel, decorated with a design possibly of Elamite origin, probably originates from North-Western Iran, or from South Caspian Area. Hammered sheet vessels were produced in Western Iranian metal workshops since the 3rd millennium B.C. (Moorey, Bunker, Porada, Markoe, 1981, p.82). By far the closest parallels are from Marlik, Kaluraz and Hasanlu, where finds of silver and gold vessels with animal friezes, and also of the same form and style of animal depiction and body decoration are recorded (Negahban, 1964, figs. 103, 108, 109, 111, 113, 136, 140, 144, pls. IV, VIIIA, XII, XVI). -
Hasanlu Bronze Pin with Ram's Head Finial
9th-8th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
With a tapering round-section shank, finial topped with a ram's head. 110 grams, 16.5 cm
From the collection of late George Withers, UK. Acquired from Dore and Rees, UK. Property of Mr A.B., an American collector.
The corpus of pins from Hasanlu includes simple plain pins, pins with lion's head and other zoomorphic pins. The zoomorphic pins were either cast onto a bronze shank or the pin was inserted into a hollow of the head. A third category was that of the pins cast in one piece, like our specimen, representing a goat or mouflon, an animal often depicted in the North-West Persian material culture.
