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For Immediate ReleasePress Release LondonLondon | +44 (0)20 7293 6000 | Matthew Weigman | [email protected]

Simon Warren | [email protected]

SOTHEBYS LONDON SALE OFARTS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD

WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE 6 TH APRIL 2011

THE SALE HIGHLIGHTS THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ARTISTSAND CRAFTSMEN OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD IN THE FIELDS OF

METALWORK, POTTERY AND THE ARTS OF THE BOOK

A Highly Important Mamluk Armorial Candlestick made for Sayf al-Din Qushtumur,major-domo of Tuquztamur al-Hamawi, Mamluk viceroy of Egypt (1340-1) and Syria (1342-5)

Est: 2,000,000 - 3,000,000

Sothebys sale of the Arts of the Islamic World to take place in London on the 6 th

April will offer an array of beautiful and rare objects, paintings and manuscripts

which highlight the achievements of artists and craftsmen from across the Muslim

world. The sale is particularly rich in works which reveal the cultural efflorescence

which took place during the Middle Ages on the Mediterranean seaboard from


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Islamic Spain to the Levant. A pre-sale exhibition will take place at Sothebys New

Bond Street headquarters on the 1, 3, 4, 5 April 2011.

Treasures from Al-Andalus

Representing the heritage of Al-Andalus and

North Africa is a pair of Almohad-period

bronze doorknockers originating from the

twelfth century (lot 299), estimated at

180,000 250,000*, and a carved wooden

door panel from fifteenth/sixteenth-centurySpain or Morocco (lot 301), estimated at

100,000 150,000. Further highlights from

Al-Andalus include three Hispano-

Moresque lustre albarelli, including A Rare

Nasrid Lustre Pottery Albarello, Spain,

Malaga, Kingdom of Granada (illustrated right), late 14th/early 15th Century,

estimated at 200,000 - 250,000 (lots 292, 294-5), and a rare thirteenth-century leather

bookbinding tooled with the arms of Castile and Len (lot 293), estimated at

50,000 70,000. From the Eastern Mediterranean region are two important works of

art produced under the Fatimid and Mamluk dynasties: a monumental marble

water jar, Egypt, eleventh-twelfth century (lot 288), estimated at 200,000 300,000,

and a Highly Important Mamluk Armorial Candlestick made for Sayf al-Din

Qushtumur, major-domo of Tuquztamur al-Hamawi, Mamluk viceroy of Egypt

(1340-1) and Syria (1342-5), which was formerly in the Collection of Rudolf, Graf von

Hoyos-Sprinzenstein (1821-1896) (estimated at 2,000,000 - 3,000,000) (lot 325,

illustrated on p.1).


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Other highlights include a monumental

double line from the 'Baysunghur' Qur'an,Herat or Samarqand, circa 1400, estimated at

300,000 - 500,000 (illustrated above), A near-

pair of Ottoman tombak lamps, Turkey, 17th

century (illustrated left, estimated at 80,000 -

100,000), an Ottoman Firman bearing the

tughra of Sultan Mehmed IV (r.1648-87),

Turkey, Istanbul, dated 1091 AH/1680 AD

(estimated at 100,000 - 150,000) and a rare

Mughal gem-set gold spoon, India, 17th-18th

century (estimated at 80,000 - 120,000).

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