islamic and indian art including modern and contemporary south asian art

224 Pages·2017·12.78 MB·English

ISLAMIC AND INDIAN ART
INCLUDING MODERN AND
CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIAN ART
Tuesday 24 April 2018

ISLAMIC AND INDIAN ART
INCLUDING MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY
SOUTH ASIAN ART
Tuesday 24 April 2018 at 11am
101 New Bond Street, London
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FLAVIA DEAKIN
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CONTENTS
MANUSCRIPTS INCLUDING THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE JAFAR GHAZI LOTS 1 - 156
ISLAMIC WORKS OF ART LOTS 157 - 266
INDIAN AND SOUTH EAST ASIAN WORKS OF ART LOTS 267 - 317
INDIAN PAINTINGS LOTS 318 - 335
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIAN ART LOTS 356 - 368
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TWO SMALL LEAVES FROM A DISPERSED MANUSCRIPT OF A FRAGMENT OF A LEAF FROM A DISPERSED MANUSCRIPT
THE QUR’AN WRITTEN IN KUFIC SCRIPT ON VELLUM OF THE QUR’AN WRITTEN IN ELONGATED KUFIC SCRIPT ON
NEAR EAST OR NORTH AFRICA, 9TH-10TH CENTURY VELLUM
Arabic manuscript on vellum, 7 lines to the page written in kufic PROBABLY KAIROUAN, TUNISIA, FIRST HALF OF THE 10TH
script in brown ink with diacritics and vowel points in black and red, CENTURY
gold roundels marking the verses Arabic manuscript on vellum, three lines of text written in elongated
113 x 158 mm.(2) kufic script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in red and
green, a pyramid-shaped cluster of six gold dots marking the verse-
£1,500 - 2,000 endings, circular marginal device, losses, irregularly shaped, framed
$2,100 - 2,800 184 x 252 mm.
€1,700 - 2,300
£1,500 - 2,000
Text $2,100 - 2,800
A.: Sura XIV, Ibrahim, Abraham, part of verse 6 to part of verse 7. €1,700 - 2,300
B.: Sura XII, al-Ra’d, Thunder, part of verse 31 to verse part of 32.
Provenance
Private European Collection.
Text
Sura XXX, al-Rum, The Roman Empire, part of verse 20 and part of
verse 21.

This fragment derives from a now dispersed manuscript of the
Qur’an copied in Tunisia in the first half of the 10th Century, almost
certainly at Kairouan, the most obvious centre for the production of
the highest quality manuscripts, and a seat of power of the Fatimid
dynasty until around AD 972. Its most distinctive features are the
fact that it has only three lines to the page - hence contributing to
the expense and luxury of the manuscript, because of the amount of
vellum and other materials required, and the time spent on it - and
the tightly curved shape of the letters falling below the line. The
verse-markers (six dots in the shape of a pyramid) are also notable.
The original size of each leaf was around 23 x 33 cm. or slightly
smaller.
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6 | BONHAMS For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.
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The text is as follows:
A FRAGMENT FROM A MANUSCRIPT OF THE QUR’AN
Sura XI, Hud, part of verse 123 to end of sura.
WRITTEN IN EASTERN KUFIC SCRIPT
Sura XII, Yusuf, Joseph.
NEAR EAST, 12TH CENTURY
Sura XIII, al-Ra’d, Thunder.
Arabic manuscript on paper, 17 leaves, 17 lines to the page
written in eastern kufic script in black ink with diacritics and vowel Sura XIV, Ibrahim, Abraham.
Sura XV, al-Hijr, The Crowd.
points in black and gold, gold palmettes marking the verses,
illuminated devices in margins, sura headings in eastern kufic script Sura XVI, al-Nahl, The Bee, verse 1 to part of verse 59.

in gold, trimmed with some loss of marginal devices, browned,
Eastern kufic first developed in the 9th Century and was sometimes
waterstaining mostly restricted to outer margins, repairs to lower
referred to as al-kufi al-farisi, which attests to its possible Persian
corners, modern gold-embossed leather binding
277 x 180 mm. origins. It is notable for its slight diagonal slant and for the triangular
formation of its letters. For a Qur’an section in eastern kufic script,
£20,000 - 30,000 with a similar compact style and sura headings, and with 17 lines
$28,000 - 42,000 to the page, see Christie’s, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 21st
€23,000 - 34,000 April 2016, lot 63.
For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot ISLAMIC AND INDIAN ART | 7
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.
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A SMALL EARLY PRAYER BOOK IN EASTERN KUFIC SCRIPT ABU’L-LAITH NASR BIN MUHAMMAD BIN AHMAD BIN
PROBABLY AFGHANISTAN, DATED AH 485/AD 1092-93 IBRAHIM AL-SAMARQANDI (AD 983-1002), KITAB BUSTAN AL-
Arabic and Persian manuscript on beige coloured paper, 13 leaves ’ARIFIN, A RELIGIOUS AND ETHICAL COMPENDIUM, COPIED
and one flyleaf, 10 lines to the page written in eastern kufic and BY AHMAD BIN YUSUF BIN ‘UTHMAN BIN MUHAMMAD
naskhi script in brown ink, headings written in eastern kufic script BIN HUSAIN BIN ‘UTHMAN AL-TARAZI, BETTER KNOWN AS
in darker brown ink, discoloration, waterstaining, edges frayed, JALALAL-AL-DIN AL-TARAZI OR TARARI
patterned boards, probably made from the doublures of a cut- MAMLUK, PROVINCIAL, PROBABLY SYRIA, EGYPT OR
down contemporary binding, edges defective and repaired, modern PALESTINE, DATED 16TH SAFAR 797/10TH DECEMBER 1394
patterned silk textile case Arabic manuscript on paper, 136 leaves, 15 lines to the page written
105 x 78 mm. in naskhi script in black ink, significant words underlined in red
ink, headings picked out in red, upper inner margins waterstained
£5,000 - 7,000 affecting small areas of text, rather browned, some crude repairs,
$7,100 - 9,900 brown morocco with stamped central medallions, upper part
€5,700 - 8,000 of covers defective and repaired, rebacked, with flap, later
replacement
243 x 170 mm.
The text includes prayers, with instructions, explanations and
narratives from the life of the Prophet Muhammad for various £2,000 - 3,000
occasions. $2,800 - 4,200
€2,300 - 3,400
Two other copies of this work, dated [AD] 22nd January 1242 and
4th February 1449, are in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin: see
A. Arberry, A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts, vols. I & V, Dublin
1955 & 1962, pp. 104 & 60, nos. 3245 & 4189 respectively; and C.
Brockelmann, GAL, I, 196, 397; S. I, 348, 685.
8 | BONHAMS For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.