This is an exceptional antique ceramic bowl from the 10th to 11th century AD (364 – 441 AH) in the Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt or Syria. The bowl has a deep form and rests on a short foot with a disc-shaped bottom. It is an artistic masterpiece with a slip-covered, splash-glazed finish that adds to its beauty.

What makes this piece unique is the rare ornamentation on the interior walls. The intricate design depicts a tiger and a horned bull, a rare composition in Islamic art...

Antique, 18th- 19th century, Islamic, Turkish Ottoman, 12 pieces silver-plated copper coffee set, consisting of the coffee pot (Ibrik), tray, and ten coffee cup holders - zarfs.

The coffee pot is on a short straight foot, has a pear-shaped silver-plated copper body, and is hand chiseled with panels in the form of the niche "Mihrab" floral pattern and 4 lobed medallions within Arabic scripts, mounted with a silver-plated brass foot, spout, serpentine handle, and mouth rim...

Antique Ottoman Islamic leather wallet, 18th century, Turkey. The wallet is rectangular in shape with a flap opening. The light brown morocco leather is embroidered with trailing floral motifs in gilt silver thread. The flap is secured by two gilded filigree stylized rosette clasps. The back of the wallet is decorated with interlocked initials "BJ" amongst trailing floral motifs. On the inside, there are four internal pockets and three leather flaps with an elaborate tooled design...

Antique 19th century Islamic Indo Persian Qajar tile of rectangular form, moulded in low-reliefs and painted in underglaze cobalt blue, green, white, light blue and brown, outlined in black depicting a man standing in a garden landscape wearing an elaborate dress and traditional Persian hat. The tile is set in its antique 19th century Cassette frame, lacquered in a deep black glossy finish with ornate gold lip...

Antique 19th century Indo Persian Qajar dynasty Islamic ceramic tile of oval form, finely hand painted under a clear crackle glaze depicting a hunting scene with a courtly male dressed in a splendid dress with spear hunting antelopes on horseback in companion of a hound dog, set in a mountainous landscape.

DIMENSIONS: 40.5 cm x 27.5 cm (15.94 x 10.83 inches).

CONDITION: Cracked in half "clean break” and glued together one chip on the back of the rim.

Antique 19th century Turkish Ottoman silver-gilt (unmarked) Islamic coffee cup holder “Zarf” of broad bowl and a low splayed foot, pierced and engraved in the lace form pattern with garlands of foliate motifs, three crescent moons with stars and two scripts in Arabic calligraphy.

DIMENSIONS:

Height: 4 cm (1.57 inches). Diameter: 5.5 cm (2.17 inches). WEIGHT: 23 grams (0.81 ounces).

CONDITION: In good condition, showing age and usage, minor tarnish spots...

Antique Islamic fruit sherbet spoon made of solid silver, 19th century Turkey. It has a Turkish Ottoman coin bowl and a long twisted stem handle. The silver is marked 800, indicating its grade, and has an elaborate finial in the shape of a crown. The finial is adorned with Islamic symbols, including a crescent moon and a star. The bowl is made of a 20 Kurush silver coin of Sultan Abdul Aziz II, which is dated AH 1277 (1861-1874 AD)...

An impressive antique 19th century Turkish Ottoman hand hammered, gilt copper alloy (Tombak) Islamic ablution basin with cover. Basin with bulbous body and large flaring rim finely hand embossed and chiseled in relief with three bunches of grapes on a vine which also issues scalloped leaves with scrolling tendrils, and three cartouches with cusped concave rim embellished with flowers...

Antique 16th century Turkish Ottoman gold gilt-copper (Tombak) Islamic Amulet case (Ta'wiz-Muska) of hexagonal cylindrical form the bottom part adorned with engraved ornament. The upper part with two small integral rectangular suspension loops, allow the amulet to be suspended with a silk cord from the neck. originally held a Qur’anic verse.

According to the previous owner, this amulet case was found before World War II on the Mohacs battlefield in Hungary...

Antique, 18th-19th century, Indo-Persian, Islamic rare divination bowl, also called Magic Bowl or Medicinal bowl. The bowl is made of turned and hand-finished cast brass of typical rounded form, with an averted rim pierced with a small hole, allowing a suspension cord to be fitted. The center of the bowl has a tapering central boss amongst Arabic writing. The inner surface is decorated with talismanic and Koranic symbols in Arabic writings, with three Mihrab and six paisley (boteh) form panels...

Four antique 19th Century Islamic Turkish Ottoman gilt-copper (tombak) coffee cup holders Zarf’s, each with a deep rounded bowl decorated in repousse with continuous, floral interlace and garlands resting on a low splayed foot.

DIMENSIONS:

Height: 5.5 cm (2.17 inches)

Diameter: 5.4 cm (2.13 inches)

Total weight: 197 grams

CONDITION: In good condition with signs of age and use. Nice patina...

This is an antique Islamic Indo-Persian aftaba ewer from the 18th-19th century, made in the Caspian Sea area.

It is a large, hand-crafted tinned copper piece with a flattened, bulbous shape and a long, hand-wrought baluster neck. The ewer has a hinged cover with an acorn finial, a swan-shaped spout, and an "S" scrolled handle with a dragon-head terminal. It is raised on a circular foot, and the flattened sides are adorned with oval medallions that have been hand-engraved and chased with sc...

This antique Islamic footed cosmetics makeup kohl jar dates back to the 11th-12th century (Medieval). It is made of bronze and comes from Khorassan. The jar is designed in the form of a small bottle, with a compressed body and a long-tapered neck. It is adorned with two incised rings and a wide flared lip and rests on four legs with bent feet. Bronze kohl vessels of this shape were widely used in the Near East from ancient times, specifically the Luristan Bronzes.

CONDITION: shows age and u...

Antique medieval, 14th – early 15th century, circa 1300 -1420 AD (700–823 AH) Marinid Sultanate (Morocco) Marinid Dynasty period, Islamic calligraphic Zilig tiles panel.

The panel consists of three tiles made of red earthenware stone paste ( (also known as Fritware) coated in black manganese glaze. These tiles are intricately carved with an elaborate cartouche that contains an Arabic calligraphy Naskh script on an uneven, chiseled, pale background. The rectangular margin of the panel...

Antique 19th century Islamic Indo-Persian Qajar papier-mache lacquer hand-painted book cover with clean pages ready to write poems.

The bindings are rectangular, and the front and the back are finely hand-painted with central lobed medallions depicting various figures in domestic and garden settings surrounded by flower sprays and foliage within a further border of flower sprays. The inner sides are painted with birds and antelope amongst vegetation on a black background. The book has clea...

These are antique Islamic Indo-Persian wooden shutters from the 19th century, Qajar period. They are painted with polychrome gul-o-bulbul (roses and nightingales) designs. The front of these rectangular-shaped shutters is decorated with urns holding a bouquet of roses and a pair of birds perching on the branches, all finely hand-painted. On the other side, a central cartouche of typical Islamic form is surrounded by roses and nightingales, flower sprays, and foliage within a large lobed medallio...

This exquisite and rare ceramic jar from the Ayyubid period of the 12th century AD boasts a unique pear-shaped form with a short foot and a flaring neck. It is adorned with three black bands delicately painted on the shoulder underglaze, contrasting beautifully with the pristine white ground. The jar is a fine example of Islamic ceramics from the time period and provides an intriguing glimpse into the art and culture of the era.

Measurements:

Height: 9.6 cm (3.78 inches)

Diame...

Antique 18th century Armenian ecclesiastical tinned copper incense burner censer, Ottoman Empire. A censer is made of hand-hammered tinned copper composed of rounded tiered dip bowl with scalloped rim, and domed cover repoussé, finely chiseled with four birded ascetic monks’ heads between four birds, most likely eagles. The center of the lid is pierced repoussé and chiseled with foliate scrolling tendrils.

This form of bird’s motives is very characteristic for Armenian art and religio...

Superb Quality antique 17th-18th century monumental Turkish Ottoman Islamic copper tray (Sini) of rounded form with upturned rim, engraved with a central roundel containing a six-pointed star- Seal of Solomon – Khātim Sulaymāni خاتم_سليمان surrounded by further concentric bands containing entwined split-arabesques, with alternating design of two-handed lidded jars and stylized domed buildings flanked by cypress trees.

REFERENCES:

1. A similar tray is published in the Sot...

Antique 19th century Turkish Ottoman Islamic silver inlay turned wooden vase. DETAILS: The bottle-shaped vase resting on a circular foot with a low round body rising to a tall trumpet neck with molded ring lip inlaid with silver wire zigzag pattern.

The vase's body is inlaid with silver wire of scrolling and swaying foliated motifs including stylized tulips buds; the neck is inlaid with Turkish Ottoman Sultan monogram “Tughra," and the floral band.

This type of silver inlaid on wood...

Antique 18th -19th century Armenian Travelling Pen Case with inkwell, Divit Qalamdan from the Ottoman Empire stamped with Armenian Letters.

The rectangular section pencase with pronounced rounded terminals, one hinged, each engraved with floral vine, the barrel-shaped truncated rectangular inkwell with hinged cover and small turning latch.

Divit Qalamdan from the Ottoman Empire were traveling quill pen holders with attached inkwells carried by scribes serving both merchants and governm...

Antique 18th century Ottoman Armenian enameled gilt copper (Tombak) ewer from eastern Turkey, probably, Vilâyet-i Diyarbakir Vilayet of Diyâr-ı Bek. The modern name Diyarbakır means the Land of Bakir and derives from the Armenian name Diyarbakır - Tigranakert, Տիգրանակերտ.

The ewer is hand-hammered from several elements composed together, including a rounded body resting on a short, splayed foot. Decorated with cast copper circular bosses stamped with a wheel of fortune desi...

Antique medieval 10th century A.D. (288 AH – 391 AH) Samanid Dynasty (819–999 AD) Samarkand, Central Asia, calligraphic slip-painted Islamic pottery bowl of a conical form on a short foot. The center is decorated in a dark brown with Arabic Kufic calligraphy and a single band of Kufic inscription below the rim over a cream ground.

Most of these types of bowls are decorated with the Arabic inscription Kufic only around the rim or only in the center of the interior. This bowl is a rare ex...

Antique, medieval, 14th century A.D. (700 AH – 803 AH) Mamluk, Middle Eastern, Islamic Fritware pottery bowl. The body of squat bulbous form on a short foot with a wide mouth with a slightly flared rim, the pronounced rounded shoulder painted in blue and black with a powerful band decorated with arabesque pattern and stylized Arabic thuluth calligraphy on an off-white ground, The center of the interior painted in green and black with an eight-lobed roseate filled with two interlocking four-pet...

Antique 18th-19th century Turkish Ottoman, Islamic Kutahya pottery pilgrim flask of typical form with a rounded body flattened on one side, rising to a short cylindrical neck with moldings at the opening flanked by two loop handles.

The white background is painted blue, pink, and beige on both sides with stylized floral sprays. Condition: In very good condition, showing age and use, the mouth and loops slightly worn out from usage, otherwise intact.

MEASUREMENTS:

Height: 50.8 cm...

Antique from the mid to late 19th century Turkish Ottoman hand blown emerald, green, Beykoz glass, Islamic, small Hookah- Huqqa (Narguile) pipe with a copper stem heart. The upper body with a bulbous shape is finely hand-painted and enameled with flower sprays. The lower part of the body and the base is molded in the form of the star with golden borders. The copper stem heart is with a cork core.

CONDITION: In very good condition showing age and usage. Free of cracks, chips, and repairs...

Antique 17th century Islamic Indo Persian Safavid hand hammered, tinned copper ablution basin with cover. Basin with bulbous body and large flaring brim finely hand chiseled with scrolling tendrils, in distinguishing Safavid pattern of interlocking split-leaf arabesques, was very popular during the 17th century in Muslim art in western Asia, Mughal India and central Asia.

The cover (filter) is pierced with four, draining holes in the form of Chinese Ming dynasty good Luck charms coins. The...

Extremely rare antique medieval 10th-14th century Islamic chess piece, carved in the form of an elephant.

REFERENCES:

https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2007/arts-of-the-islamic-world-l0722http://medaillesetantiques.bnf.fr/ws/catalogue/app/collection/record/ark:/12148/c33gbcx5q0/lot.48.html

http://medaillesetantiques.bnf.fr/ws/catalogue/app...

https://echiquier-val-yerres.org/histoire-des-echecs/evolution-du-jeu-et-des-pieces/

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Antique, 18th - early 19th century, Indo - Persian Islamic Qur'an stand (kursi or Rahla) of typical folding X form, made of sycamore wood, inlaid with Micro -Mosaic (KHATAMKARI) of colored woods, bone, and metal marquetry. Formed of two parts intersecting and hinged together, the upper part decorated on both sides with six-pointed star - Seal of Solomon - Khātim Sulaymāni خاتم_سليمان, the lower half carved in openwork with a palmette motif, profusely decorated with geometric motifs a...

Antique 19th century North African Islamic Moroccan, Berber terracotta pottery double handled vessel in the form of amphora. The vessel is hand painted around the body and neck, in pale red and black, with classic Berber tribal geometrical designs.

MEASUREMENTS: Height: 27 cm (10.63 inches). Width:(at widest point): 17cm (6.69 inches).

CONDITION: In good condition considering its age. It shows its age and uses, with nice old patina. No repairs or restorations.

Scarce, antique, 16th - 17th century, Transoxiana. Safavid Indo-Persian Islamic wine carafe bottle (surāhī) made of cast, forged, turned, and decorated in openwork copper alloy.

With a spherical body rising from a short foot with a central bulbous ring, resting on a splayed foot, the tall, ribbed tubular neck is adorned at the top and bottom with openwork bands of a typical Safavid pattern four-petaled blossom. The top band with remains of turquoise stone inlays may indicate that the bo...

A rare, antique, 18th-19th century, lacquered burr wood snuff box of circular form with a lid depicting meticulously hand-painted with a fine brush with outstanding details a portrait of a Turkish Ottoman Sultan or Pasha.

He is wearing a recognizable Turkish Ottoman turban bejeweled with a string of pearls and a green caftan with pink lapels and set in a gold gilt copper frame. The interior is lacquered in a tortoiseshell look.

Possibly the miniature was specially commissioned by the...

The body of the ewer seems in embossed rather than cast bronze because the walls are very thin, however the neck and the handle are in cast bronze and very thick. The decor is incised with a character fighting a snake, details are inlaid in gold. 3 fantastic animals are arranged on the sides on either side of the ewer, they are treated in high relief and seem to be in solid bronze and to be one with the body of ewer because we do not see any welding or rivets. The animals are also encrusted with...

Antique 19th century Indo Persian, Islamic, Shia Muslim ceremonial all-steel sword in the form of a straight, double-edged medieval Islamic sword.

The entire broad blade is superbly etched on both sides with Arabic calligraphy, possibly verses from the Qur'an, a serpent, and the figure of the mythological demon "Div" (دیو).

The hilt has an elaborate pommel with an integral cross guard, down curving quillons shaped like stylized mythical dragon heads, and a pair of langets with silv...

Rare antique 17th-century Turkish Ottoman war axe with large, well-forged steelhead and visible forging layers, Islamic Osmanli Teber.

It consists of a massive crescent-shaped blade, a central hexagonal-shaped block chased with slender vertical grooves, and a projecting-shaped fluke with a square hammer on the back. Mounted on its original handcrafted cylindrical wood haft, which broadened at the top to prevent the steelhead from sliding off.

The famous Janissaries Corps, the elite Ott...

A pair of antique, 19th century, Islamic Turkish Ottoman stirrups of characteristic form. They are made of brass and have a curved base plate flanked by flat sides that rise to an arch and finish with a loop. The stirrups are decorated in openwork with typical Ottoman neo-rococo style motifs. The base plate is cut in an elaborate cartouche surrounded by acanthus scrolls.

DIMENSIONS: Approximately. Length: 16 cm (6.3 inches). Width: 11.5 cm (4.53 inches). Height: 14 cm (5.51 inches).

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