ISLAMIC ART HAMMER AUCTION 18 NOVEMBER 2025 | Nov 18, 2025
Lot 14
AN ILLUMINATED QAJAR QURAN, PERSIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY AN ILLUMINATED QAJAR QURAN, PERSIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY AN ILLUMINATED QAJAR QURAN, PERSIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY AN ILLUMINATED QAJAR QURAN, PERSIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY AN ILLUMINATED QAJAR QURAN, PERSIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Lot 14 AN ILLUMINATED QAJAR QURAN, PERSIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3007112

Arabic manuscript on paper, each folio with 17 lines of elegant black naskh, gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, large gilt and polychrome floral marginal 'juz, hizb and nisf' medallions, text within double gold rules, Surah headings in red thuluth script on cartouches with polychrome floral illuminated ground, two opening bifolia fully illuminated in gold and polychrome framing 6 lines of black naskh script in clouds reserved against a sprinkled gilt ground.
In gilt Qajar lacquer binding with central cartouche enclosing flower heads and surrounded by floral spandrels.
13.5 by 20.5 cm.

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