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Arts of the Islamic World

London | October 2014

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Our Arts of the Islamic World auction will take place in London on 8 October 2014. Benedict Carter introduces some of the sale’s highlights including an exceptional Iznik blue and white pottery dish from Turkey, circa 1520, a brass astrolabe made by Al-Ahmar Al-Nujumi Al-Rumi for the treasury of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II, and an illustrated and illuminated leaf from a copy of Sa’di’s Gulistan.

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