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An Antique 19th century, Transoxiana, Indo Persian Islamic Central Asian Bukhara – Samarkand, hand hammered copper Teapot - Ewer. Tear - shaped body on a flaring trumpet foot, curved spout with a short neck and domed hinged cover and serpentine handle.

The body composed of several elements of hand-hammered copper adorned with embossed drop-shaped panels and finely hand chased split-leaf arabesques.

Similar ewers are in many world-famous museum collections, including Henri Moser colle...

Antique Islamic Malay solid Silver Betel, (Sirih) / Tobacco Box, 'Chelpa' - Malay People, 19th Century Malesia.

The hinged box of lobed form, constructed from beaten sheet silver decorated with chasing, engraving and punchwork with Islamic Malay design. The box with hinged lid affix with integral locking mechanism and suspension loop.

CONDITION: Signs of genuine age and usage, with wear, no repairs, or restorations.

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Overall diameter including suspension ring: ...

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.

Antique 19th century Kashmir Islamic small Qur’an stand (kursi or Rahla /Rehal), of typical folding form with two parts hinged, together with lower arched sections, the top parts with serrated edging, painted throughout with floral spray polychrome and raised gilt lacquer arabesques.

MEASUREMENTS:

Overall length (open): 22.5 cm (8.86 inches). Height: 15 cm (5.91 inches). Width: 10.5 cm (4.13 inches).

CONDITION: Age and usage is showing, slightly worn, lacquer polychrome with ...

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 Burmese handmade solid silver, superb quality large rectangular box adorned with Anantasayana, Burma, late 19th century.

The hinged lid is decorated with finely hand chased and embossed in high relief Sheshashayi Vishnu and the birth of Lord Brahma, depicting the four-armed Lord Vishnu reclining on a bed formed by the serpent scrolls of Sheshanaga and protected by the Naga’s heads. The four-faced and four-armed Brahma in the lotus emanates from Vishnu’s navel. He is accompanie...

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.

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Height: 50.8 cm...

Very rare antique 19th century (c1880) luster glaze majolica vase by Ulisse Cantagalli of Firenze, Italy. An impressive large two-handled lustre vase in Islamic Hispano - Moresque, Moorish Alhambra style decorated in cobalt blue with raised pseudo-Arabic calligraphy in Thuluth script and various animals, foliage and birds painted in white on the copper luster ground.

Marked at the base with the Cantagalli cockerel.

MEASUREMENTS:

Height: 26.5 cm (10.43 inches). Width (handle to ha...

Antique, Islamic Multan Sindh,19th century India, a baluster-shaped pottery vase with a trumpet neck. Hand-painted in cobalt blue, turquoise, and green with floral vines and acanthus motifs on a white background under a rich, thick, clear glaze.

CONDITION: The vase is in good condition, considering its age of more than 100 years, with no cracks, restorations, or repairs. There is a small imperfection at the rim of the base that looks like the chip. However, this imperfection is covered with...

An Antique 19th century, Transoxiana, Indo Persian Islamic Central Asian Bukhara – Samarkand, hand hammered brass Teapot - Ewer. Tear - shaped body on a flaring trumpet foot, curved spout with a short neck and domed hinged cover and serpentine handle.

The body composed of several elements of hand-hammered brass adorned with embossed drop-shaped panels and finely hand chased split-leaf arabesques.

Similar ewers are in many world-famous museum collections, including Henri Moser coll...

Antique 19th century excellent quality Indian two miniatures portraits of the Mughal Empress Mumtaz Mahal (Arjumand Banu Begum), a wife of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan. Each of the miniature is finely hand-painted in gouache on an oval, natural wafer. The miniature paintings show the artist's outstanding skills, such as fine facial details, a pattern on an opulent dress, and jewelry details. Each miniature is placed behind convex oval glass, then fitted into the cardboard passe-partout, and fr...

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...

Huge 73.8 cm (29 inches) Antique 19th century India solid sterling silver Islamic Indo Persian, Indian water pipe hookah, huqqa narguile comprising a base of truncated conical form with concave walls, resting on a spreading flattened rounded foot, the squat shoulder and the base decorated with bands of repousse repeating vegetal designs against punched ground.

The middle part divided into two baluster form parts surmounted by a large bulbous furnace decorated en suite with the base with ban...

A large antique 19th century Indian Hindu temple puja bell or Ghanta the janus handle with figures of the monkey God Hanuman and Garuda. The bowl engraved with two elephants and zebu bull and floral pattern and scrolls.

CONDITION: Showing age and usage, handle slightly bent the figures appear to be well worn from ritual use and handling with nice old patina. In working order - sounds good!

MEASUREMENTS:

Height: 18.5 cm (7.28 inches). Width: 10 cm (3.94 inches).

The Bells p...

Antique Indian Very well-made cast bronze, hand shaped and hand sculptured door handle in the form of the peacock bird 19th century India Deccan.

MEASUREMENTS: Overall length: 18 cm (7.09 inches) Width at the widest point: 4.6 cm (1.81 inches)

A museum-quality antique Turkoman Turkmen silver gilt Quran (Koran) kamea cheikel leather pouch, 19th-century, from the Tekke tribe in Central Asia.

The rectangular brown leather pouch is exceptionally well made by a skilled Turkmen silversmith. It features solid silver, gold-gilded panels engraved with typical Tekke volutes and carnelian stones. The large front panel has five oval-shaped carnelian stones set in raised settings.

The pouch's brown leather strap is decorated with four gil...

A very fine quality antique 19th century, Islamic, Indo-Persian, lacquered papier mache bowl of lobed circular form, with a scalloped rim on a raised circular foot. It has 26 lobed petals superbly hand-painted in gold and various pigments with flower sprays, foliage, and teardrop-shaped paisley motifs. The lower rounded body is finely hand-painted with floral sprays and perching birds (gul-o-bulbul, roses and nightingales). The interior of the bowl is fitted with a brass lining.

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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...

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...

Antique 19th century South India, Tamil Nadu finely cast, copper alloy figure of dancing Hindu deity Krishna on a lotus plinth. Depicting the Lord Krishna dancing victoriously on Kaliya Naga and holding a ball of butter in his right hand, his rounded body adorned by belts with hanging bells and other jewelry, his face with almond-shaped eyes and a raised urna centered between his arched brows, his hair arranged in neat rows and surmounted by a round lotus bud finial.

HEIGHT: 8.6 cm (3.39 ...

Antique 18th-19th century Indian copper alloy figurine amulet depicting Four Armed Hindu Deity Vishnu standing on domed square base, his two upper arms holding the chakra and conch with his right hand raised in abhaya mudra.

Height: 6.5 cm (2.56 inches).

CONDITION: in good condition considering its age worn out and shiny on the exposed areas from centuries of touching by worshipers.

Lord Vishnu is considered as the chief god in Hindu religion and Indian mythology. Vishnu, the pr...

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...

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. Gold gilding is partly worn, minor dents on the lips of the bowls and rims...

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...

Antique 18th-19th century, Islamic Indo Persian brass divination bowl, also called Magic Bowl or Medicinal bowl, made from turned and hand finished cast brass in a typical rounded form, on a low circular foot, averted rim, and pierced with a small hole allowing a suspension cord to be fitted.

The center of the bowl has a tapering central boss among Arabic calligraphy.

The inner walls are decorated with 13 panels in the form of a “Mihrab” niche with engraved talismanic and Koranic s...

Antique, 19th century North African, Morocco-Algeria, Islamic Maghrib, Kabyle, Kabylie, enamel silver, jeweled turban pin brooch, Sarpech -Aigrette (feather support for turban).

Details: This impressive Sarpech is of classical form, composed of several well-made separate elements of solid silver, soldered together, including a long stem with a flower head end. The upper part of the stem is surmounted by an elaborate terminal that is decorated with delicate filigree work adorned with enam...

Superb quality antique late 19th century finely hand painted, Indian miniature painting depicting the Taj Mahal, Mausoleum of Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan and his wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Set under the glass in an oval silver frame mounted in a beautifully carved solid ebony wood frame carved with floral decoration standing on two ornate feet with an easel at the back to stand. The painting itself features the classic symmetrical view of the marble structure set behind its reflecting pool. While the fo...

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.

The cover (filter) is also decorated with three bunches of grapes on a vine which also issues scalloped lea...

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).

Obverse:

Sultan Abdul Aziz II Tughra beneath stars ...

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. There are no repa...

A splendid antique 19th century, Islamic, Indonesian shield of circular convex form and the flat outer rim made of hand-forged copper, applied with finely hand cut brass script in Arabic calligraphy, soldered to the surface of the shield and adorned with brass rosette repousee and pierced in lotus flower heads, four domed brass bosses and four elaborate plaques, the repousee is pierced with arabesque design. The back of the shield is affixed with a wood handle fitted in copper mounts.

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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 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.

MEASUREMENTS:

Dimensions, including the frame, 37.2 cm x 33 cm (14.65 inc...

Large antique Indian bronze jewelry mold die, stamp, seal, of very rare concave form incised with very fine intricate motives. 18th-19th century India.

CONDITION: In very good condition with a lovely old patina and sign of usage.

DIMENSIONS: 11 cm x 9 cm (4.33 inches x 3 .54 inches).

WEIGHT: 283 grams.

An antique Hindu Indian bronze ceremonial bell handle from the 18th -19th century, India. It is made up of two back-to-back statues. One statue is of Hanuman, who represents friendship, loyalty, and service and is known as the monkey god. The other statue is of Garuda, a mythic half-man, half-bird who is said to fly everywhere to protect humankind.

CONDITION: Showing its age and use, the surface has a dark patina and is worn out on exposed areas.

MEASUREMENTS: Height: 11 cm (4.33 i...

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.

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