78 5272 Oriental miniatures Anonymous 17th cent 
- A few small imperfections. Please contact us for a detailed condition report.
= Interesting miniature, in the style of the famous Shah Jahan album miniatures, with the detailed drawings of flowers and birds in margins. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIII.
78 5273 Oriental miniatures Anonymous early 18th cent ? 
- A few leaves (water)stained; library stamp of "Musée Tack Ypres Bibliothèque" on verso of final free endpaper (not traced) and w. catalogue clipping describing the work as "Manuscrit Turc" ["Turc" crossed out] and the contents as "poésies et contes, en turc". Spine-ends worn.
= The nice gouache shows a seated woman in a garden, playing the rebab (an Arabic bowed instrument). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIII.
78 5274 Oriental miniatures Anonymous late 17th/ early 18th cent Deccan 
78 5274 Oriental miniatures Anonymous late 17th/ early 18th cent Deccan 
- A few unobtrusive (very) small waterstains in the blue background.
= A beautifully detailed portrait of a prince wearing a magnificent robe decorated with hunting scenes. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIII.
78 5275 Oriental miniatures Anonymous 18th cent 
78 5275 Oriental miniatures Anonymous 18th cent 
- Waterstained; mounted on board along margins. Probably a preparative design for a miniature.
WITH another anonymous drawing of a prince seated on a dais (pencil and watercolour on paper, 16,1x10,5 cm., 18th cent.(?), with (unread) Persian annotation in top and lower margins. Sl. creased and fingersoiled; tipped onto modern cloth on mount).
78 5276 Oriental miniatures Anonymous 18th cent ? 
- Worn, w. closed tear.
= Perhaps an illustration for the poem Guy-o Chawgân ("the Ball and the Polo-mallet").
78 5277 Oriental miniatures Anonymous 18th cent ? 
78 5277 Oriental miniatures Anonymous 18th cent ? 
- A few spots affected by silverfish. Laid down on contemp. pink board.
AND 11 others, incl. 2 modern miniatures by HOSEIN-KHATAY, both showing a couple surrounded by flowers/ branches offering each other a cup/ a fruit (both gouache on leather with inlay painted leather sections, heightened with gold, each 21,6x12,3 cm. Both w. annot. on mount attributing the drawing to "Hosein-Khatay leerling van Mirzaga Emamy ±50 jaar te Isfahan Iran 1957" and 1x w. mounted ticket of the dealers "M.KH. Golriz Khatami & Sons, Chirazi Chaharbagh, Isfahan, Iran").
78 5278 Oriental miniatures Anonymous 19th cent 
78 5279 Oriental miniatures Anonymous prob 19th cent 
78 5279 Oriental miniatures Anonymous prob 19th cent 
- A few tiny wormholes, otherwise contents fine. Binding worn.
= Attractive gouaches mainly showing crocodile-, deer- and tiger-hunting scenes (3x scenes of hunters(?) and their masters seated and resting on a terrace). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIV.
AND a printed 20th century Persian book w. 10 gouaches of hunting scenes (modern hcl. Gouaches painted over printed text, and partly cut short).
78 5280 Oriental miniatures Anonymous 19th cent ? 
78 5280 Oriental miniatures Anonymous 19th cent ? 
78 5280 Oriental miniatures Anonymous 19th cent ? 
- Blank margins and corners partly strengthened w. paper.
= The two top scenes show two men in a rural scene. The four other scenes show a prince(?) with his lover. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIV.
AND 6 other Persian miniatures, including two other courtly scenes with an amorous couple and a hunting scene.
78 5281 Oriental miniatures Anonymous 19th/ 20th cent 
78 5282 Oriental miniatures Anonymous 20th cent 
78 5282 Oriental miniatures Anonymous 20th cent 
78 5283 Oriental miniatures Anonymous 20th cent 
78 5283 Oriental miniatures Anonymous 20th cent 
78 5283 Oriental miniatures Anonymous 20th cent 
= Probably by 3 different artists. Including 2 curious drawings showing Japanese looking couples.
78/5284 Oriental miniatures Lot of 10 miniatures 
78/5284 Oriental miniatures Lot of 10 miniatures 
- Partly waterstained and/ or frayed in margins.
= Includes scene with a man hanging from a tree by his feet and being flogged to his soles, while another man is dragged from a pool; a scene with a sleeping man being attacked by a dragon, his companions looking on in fear and, finally, a tournament scene in which two horsemen fight each other, with musicians and soldiers in the background.
78/5285 Paper Fishnet full of fish 
78/5285 Paper Fishnet full of fish 
= Incredibly intricate design. Perhaps intended as endpapers for books.
AND 3 other similar decorated sheets, all w. vertical fold and w. sm. defects.
78 5286 Ranshû 18th cent 
78 5286 Ranshû 18th cent 
= Rare, one copy found in the Metropolitan Museum. Ranshû was a pupil of Shunshô (1726-1792).
Shunshô (1726-1792). (Scene from the tale of Genji). Col. woodcut, 21,5x15,7 cm., signed Katsukawa Shunshô.
- Sl. soiled.
78 5287 Sadanobu I 1809 1879 
- Sl. foxed; cut sl. short on all margins (34,7x34,5 cm.)
78 5288 Saito K 1907 1997 
- Narrow fold in lower left margin of image (printing flaw).
78/5289 Sanjo Hobi Korireki 
78/5289 Sanjo Hobi Korireki 
- Bindings and chemise sl. dam. by silverfish; upper joints chemise split(ting); one clasp broken.
78 5290 Scrolls Anonymous 19th cent 
78 5290 Scrolls Anonymous 19th cent 
78 5290 Scrolls Anonymous 19th cent 
= Image accompanied by classical 'waka' poetry.
Aigai, Takaku (1796-1843). (Nature studies). Makimono, horizontal picture handscroll w. 5 drawings, brush and black ink and grey wash/ watercolour, w. stamps, each ±24x35,5 cm., backed at one end w. brocade silk, rolled on two jikugi, in orig. wooden box w. hashira-title and Japanese text in brush and ink on verso lid.
- Creased.
AND 1 larger makimono.
78 5291 Scrolls Anonymous 2nd half 19th cent 
78 5291 Scrolls Anonymous 2nd half 19th cent 
78 5291 Scrolls Anonymous 2nd half 19th cent 
78 5291 Scrolls Anonymous 2nd half 19th cent 
78 5291 Scrolls Anonymous 2nd half 19th cent 
- Some creases and closed wormholes; silk frayed at edges; new ribbon.
= All pictures showing people, i.a. samurai warriors and oni.
AND 3 others, i.a. an earlier, anonymous makimono, possibly unfinished, showing people and a monkey, on unbacked paper (±28x276 cm.).