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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.

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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.

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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...