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Asian, Antiquities, Islamic and Indian Art: Live Online
Thursday 29 January 2026 10:00
The January 29th Asian, Antiquities, Islamic and Indian Arts sale features a huge selection of ceramics, arms and armour, paintings, scrolls, manuscripts and reference books for all budgets.
The Chinese, Japanese, and South East Asian Art section includes nearly 450 lots from China, Japan, Korea, Burma, and Vietnam. Highlights include a private collection of Chinese ceramics.
The Antiquities, Islamic, and Indian Arts section features paintings, drawings, and objets d’art, including gold swords from a Royal Collection, Indian arms, the private Arabian Nights-themed library of scholar Robert Irwin (1946-2024), and contemporary Iranian works.
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Highlight Lots
LOT 11
A Roman twisted green glass handled vase and a Roman wide-mouthed storage jar with collar rim,
Estimate: £300 - £400
LOT 17
A presentation sword (saif) and dagger (kinjal), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 20th/21st...
Estimate: £100 - £200
LOT 74
M.F. Husain, Indian 1915-2011- Folklore Jaisalmer; serigraph, signed in pencil lower right, ed....
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
LOT 194
Property from the Private Collection of Robert Irwin (1946-2024) The Arabian Nights: A large...
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
LOT 199
A London private collection, to be sold without reserve (lots 195-234) A Chinese crackle-glazed...
Estimate: £300 - £500
LOT 238
A Chinese blue and white 'antique objects' jar Qing dynasty, Kangxi period Painted with table...
Estimate: £500 - £800
LOT 320
A large Chinese famille rose 'hundred deer' hu-form vase Late Qing dynasty/Republic...
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
LOT 388
A Chinese Fahua figure of Guanyu Qing dynasty, 18th/19th century The God of War seated with...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
LOT 487
Two Japanese wood carved netsuke Edo period One in form of a fox's mask with a moveable chin,...
Estimate: £300 - £500
LOT 522
A Tibetan copper alloy ritual dagger, phurbhu 16th/17th century The handle with skull head...
Estimate: £200 - £300
LOT 1
Six terracotta relief fragments, Circa 4th-1st Centuries B.C. and Later, Including a...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Starting Bid: £120
LOT 2
A Cypriot black-on-red ware pottery round-lipped ochinoe, Iron Age, 750-600 B.C., the tall,...
Estimate: £200 - £300
Starting Bid: £80
LOT 3
An Etruscan fragmentary terracotta votive female head, circa 4th-3rd Century B.C., 16cm high,...
Estimate: £100 - £200
Starting Bid: £40
LOT 4
Three small Near Eastern pottery vessels, circa 2nd Millennium B.C. and later including a small...
Estimate: £200 - £300
Starting Bid: £80
LOT 5
A Coptic textile fragment with Pyrrhic dancers and hares, Circa 4th-6th Century A.D., max width...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Starting Bid: £280
LOT 6
A Coptic textile fragment with Pyrrhic dancers and lions, Circa 4th-6th Century A.D., max width...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Starting Bid: £280
LOT 7
Three terracotta moulded pottery oil lamps,2nd-6th century, In a fitted wooden box, Box 17diam x...
Estimate: £100 - £200
Starting Bid: £40
LOT 8
A Roman amber glass double balsamarium with turquoise glass trailing, 4th-5th century...
Estimate: £300 - £500
Starting Bid: £200
LOT 9
A Near Eastern pottery vessel, a Luristan bronze bracelet and another tall necked pottery...
Estimate: £200 - £300
Starting Bid: £100
LOT 10
A Roman blue glass double balsamarium Circa 3rd-4th Century A.D. The conjoined tubes with...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Starting Bid: £200
LOT 11
A Roman twisted green glass handled vase and a Roman wide-mouthed storage jar with collar rim,
Estimate: £300 - £400
Starting Bid: £200
LOT 12
A presentation sword (saif), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 20th/21st century, Of typical form, with...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Starting Bid: £200
LOT 13
A presentation sword (saif), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 20th/21st century, Of typical form, with...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Starting Bid: £200
LOT 14
An inscribed presentation bone hilted sword (saif), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 20th/21st...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Starting Bid: £300
LOT 15
Two filigree-mounted presentation swords, Arabian Peninsula, 20th/21st century, Each with...
Estimate: £200 - £300
Starting Bid: £100
LOT 16
A presentation sword (saif) with gold fitted sheath, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and United Kingdom,...
Estimate: £200 - £300
Starting Bid: £100
LOT 17
A presentation sword (saif) and dagger (kinjal), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 20th/21st...
Estimate: £100 - £200
Starting Bid: £70
LOT 18
A presentation sword (saif) and dagger (kinjal), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 20th/21st...
Estimate: £100 - £200
Starting Bid: £70
LOT 19
A presentation sword (saif) and dagger (kinjal), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 20th/21st...
Estimate: £100 - £200
Starting Bid: £70
LOT 20
A gold damascened and watered steel dagger (kard), Iran and Northern India, circa 1800, Of...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Starting Bid: £340
LOT 21
A gold damascened hilted sword (tulwar), The hilt, North India, late 17th/early 18th century,...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Starting Bid: £420
LOT 22
A silvered-hilted and damascened steel sword (tulwar), The blade, possibly western Iran, 18th...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Starting Bid: £340
LOT 23
A silvered-steel hilted sword (tulwar), Sindh, Northwest India, circa 1800, With plain deep...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Starting Bid: £340
LOT 24
A gold inlaid silvered hilt sword (sosun pata), North India, circa 1875, The typical blade...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Starting Bid: £340
LOT 25
A steel hilt and watered-steel blade sword (tulwar), The hilt, North India, 18th century ; the...
Estimate: £200 - £400
Starting Bid: £140
LOT 26
A steel hilt and watered-steel blade sword (tulwar), The hilt, North India, 18th century ; the...
Estimate: £200 - £400
Starting Bid: £140
LOT 27
A silvered-steel hilted sword (tulwar), The hilt, Northwest India, 19th century ; the blade,...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Starting Bid: £420
LOT 28
A gold damascened steel hilted sword (tulwar), North India and Persia, circa 1800, With...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Starting Bid: £420
LOT 29
An enamelled hilted and watered steel dagger (kard), Kashmir, North India, 19th century, the...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Starting Bid: £340
LOT 30
Two depictions of animals: elephants and another led by a horse and closed by a dromedary,
Estimate: £50 - £80
Starting Bid: £20
LOT 31
Four depictions of birds, Modern, on detached manuscript folios, mounted, framed and...
Estimate: £40 - £60
Starting Bid: £10
LOT 32
A susani, Lakai, Central Asia, circa 1925, together with a large quantity of textiles and...
Estimate: £300 - £500
Starting Bid: £200
LOT 33
A precious stones or pearls and metals merchant's set of scales, The scales and weights possibly...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Starting Bid: £500
LOT 34
A large and engraved tinned copper bowl, Safavid Iran, 17th century or later, the decoration...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Starting Bid: £280
LOT 35
Korosh Ghazimorod, Iranian b.1969- Untitled; Calligraphic work acrylic on paper, mounted, glazed...
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
Starting Bid: £480
LOT 36
A set of pottery sweetmeat dishes, Kutahya, Ottoman Turkey, first quarter 20th century, Or...
Estimate: £200 - £300
Starting Bid: £140
LOT 37
An Ottoman tombak lidded bowl (kapakli sahan), Turkey, 19th century or later, gilded copper,...
Estimate: £100 - £200
Starting Bid: £40
LOT 38
A Timurid painting of a lady and attendants, Herat, Timurid Iran, circa 1450, opaque pigments...
Estimate: £500 - £600
Starting Bid: £340
LOT 39
An Ottoman embroidered silk panel, 18th century, of rectangular form, the red silk ground...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Starting Bid: £420
LOT 40
A red cotton-covered pilgrim flask (matara), India, 19th century, The zinc body covered in...
Estimate: £1,200 - £1,500
Starting Bid: £800
LOT 41
A seated portrait of maharaja Bim Singh of Marwar enthroned, Rajasthan, North India, 19th...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Starting Bid: £120
LOT 42
Two dancers in a pavillion, North India, 20th century, Opaque pigments heightened with gold on...
Estimate: £200 - £300
Starting Bid: £80
LOT 43
An equestrian portrait of a maharaja, Rajasthan, North India, 19th century, Opaque pigments on...
Estimate: £400 - £500
Starting Bid: £160
LOT 44
Four overpainted detached folios from an unrelated manuscript, India, 20th century, depicting...
Estimate: £100 - £200
Starting Bid: £40
LOT 45
The fourth avatar of Vishnu : Narasimha, North India, circa 1840, Opaque pigments heightened...
Estimate: £500 - £800
Starting Bid: £340
LOT 46
A carved wood mirror-inset double door,Syria or Turkey, 20th centuryWith cusped top, each panel...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Starting Bid: £420
LOT 47
Three Spode boxed limited edition plates, "The Imperial Plate of Persia", Designed by Harold...
Estimate: £300 - £500
Starting Bid: £200
LOT 48
A rare Dutch Colonial silver spittoon, Batavia, Indonesia, circa 18th century, on a short foot,...
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Starting Bid: £1,000
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