3 août 2017

Lot 150. A gemset gold and enamelled gold choker (galsari), North India, late 19th century. Estimate £6,000 - GBP 8,000. Price realised GBP 9,375. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015 The main band formed of a series of square panels each set with a large central ruby surrounded by smaller ones, each end with a small drop shaped panel with loop attachment, the band surrounded by a series of small seed pearls, a band of drop shapes below from which are suspended larger pearls and rubies, the reverse with enamelled... [Lire la suite]

Lot 149. A Mughal gemset gold and enamelled turban ornament (sarpech), North India, 19th century. Estimate £8,000 - GBP 12,000. Price realised GBP 10,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015 Of typical form with a central curved palmette rising from a central rosette, flanked by two smaller rosettes, the gold body set with diamonds and other gems, the reverse with polychrome enamelling showing central birds surrounded by floral motifs, with two emeralds suspended from the body and a third from the top of the... [Lire la suite]

Lot 57. A carved rock-crystal intaglio, Safavid Iran, dated AH 1042-1632-33 AD. Estimate £6,000 - GBP 8,000. Price realised GBP 10,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015 Of octagonal form with with a slight stepped rim, the face engraved with elegant nasta'liq surrounded by rosettes and small floral sprays, the calligraphy divided into rectangular cartouches arranged in a flowing pattern around a central square which contains the date, the rim with two simple rules, a minor chip to the upper... [Lire la suite]

Lot 152. A diamond-set and enamelled gold necklace and earrings, North India, 19th century. Estimate £8,000 - GBP 12,000. Price realised GBP 11,875. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015 Comprising a necklace and a pair of earrings, the necklace formed of a lattice of small diamond-set elements issuing clusters of small pearls below, one larger pearl at the middle, the reverse with red, white and green enamelling, a silk string, the earrings each with a small rosette suspending another larger one, small pearls again... [Lire la suite]

Lot 52. A Kneeling Prince, Bukhara, Late 16th century and Mughal India, 17th century. Estimate £30,000 - GBP 50,000. Price realised GBP 37,500. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015 Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the prince kneels in a landscape wearing gold embroidered robes with a series of daggers tucked into his belt, a falcon perches on his right arm, laid down between blue and cream borders and gold, black and white rules on wide gold-speckled blue borders, a later owner's stamp in the lower... [Lire la suite]

Lot 151. A gemset and enamelled sword (tulwar) hilt, Benares, Late 18th-early 19th century. Hilt 7¾in. (19.6cm.) long. Estimate £25,000 - GBP 35,000. Price realised GBP 40,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015 Of typical form with upper suspension loop, the ground of green enamel with pink floral highlights, set with a series of diamonds in gold mounts forming rosettes and floral sprays, hand guard withmakara head finial with agate eyes, with original similarly decorated chape, minor loss of enamels. ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 197. An Armenian gemset and enamelled reliquary, Ottoman Turkey, 17th century. Estimate £7,000 - GBP 10,000. Price realised GBP 47,500. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015 The pendant of ogival form with cusped edges, decorated in openwork with a pronounced cross with rosette centre and trefoil edges, two split palmettes emerging from the bottom and two pomegranates in the upper interstices, simple leafy scrolls decorated with white, green and blue enamels in between, the reverse with a central... [Lire la suite]

Lot 131. Prince Murad Bakhsh, probably Aurangabad or Bijapur, Central India, circa 1650. Estimate £30,000 - GBP 50,000. Price realised GBP 47,500. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015 Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the elegant prince is depicted in a window wearing a colourful turban set with a large jewelled turra with a curved feather, in his hand he holds a series of three jewels, embroidered gold textiles frame the window, minor creases to the folio, 11½ x 8¼in. (29.2 x 20.8cm). ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 163. A gilt-copper (tombak) covered tankard (hanap), Ottoman Turkey, Early 17th century, 10½in. (26.6cm.) high. Estimate £120,000 - GBP 180,000. Price realised GBP 110,500. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015   With cylindrical body, separate domed lid with knop finial and scrolling handle terminating in tulip motifs, the body decorated with a series of ogival cusped cartouches filled with carnations and flanking elongated ones with further floral sprays, the ground surrounding them with dense floral... [Lire la suite]

Lot 17. A silver and gold-inlaid bronze jug (mashrabe), Timurid Khorassan, North East Iran or Afghanistan, Late 15th or early 16th century, 6 1/8in. (15.5cm.) high. Estimate £120,000 - GBP 180,000. Price realised GBP 110,500. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015  Rising from a short trumpet foot through wide bulbous body tapering to a high neck with a stepped shoulder, slightly flaring at the mouth with a slightly everted rim, the matched gently domed lid with hole to the centre, associated curved handle with... [Lire la suite]