Hatefi Collections

ALBUM PAGE IN THE STYLE OF MUHAMMAD SIYAH QALAM

DESCRIPTION:
A DEMON DANGLING BABY LEOPARDS The study, of a demon dragging a man and dangling baby leopards by the neck and pigment on paper, a panel of fine nastaliq calligraphy in the upper right hand corner, laid down on gold speckled paper and card, minor areas of staining, slight loss to corner ink wash gold and opaque watercolour on coarse paper panels of text on recto written in nastaliq...

PERIOD:
14TH CENTURY

AN ISLAMIC SLIVER ENGRAVED PORRINGER

DESCRIPTION:
Signed,As a Master engraver Ibrahim.Daiezadeh. Of circular, on short circular foot, two scroll handles as intertwined lions faced, The flat domed cover surmounted with wondering rabbits and single gazelle by an openwork motifs bud finial, Stands on four engraved lions foots...

PERIOD:
1966

AN ISLAMIC KUFIC CALLIGRAPHIC MARBLE PANEL STELE

DESCRIPTION:
Of rectangular form, on the face carved in shallow relief of Quranic Kufic and of elegant angular kufic, to the top right edge carved in a very skilled manner with the surface of reverse uneven to a vertical indent running down the center of the panel, minor chipping losses.

PERIOD:
880-900 AD

AN ISLAMIC DEEPLY CARVED WHITE MARBLE FOUNTAIN GLOBULAR

DESCRIPTION:
An ottoman marble fountain water spout raised stand formed as a globular squat budding carved with the lotus flowers.

PERIOD:
18th Century

A RARE LARAG TIGER-HEAD STEEL WATERSPOUT

DESCRIPTION:
Of curved tiger head form, with black patina and being eroded on the head sensitively moulded with large rounded eyes, pointed nose and round nostrils, the open mouth with bulbous cheeks with the neck elongated.

PERIOD:
17th Century

AN ISLAMIC STEEL PESTLE FACETED

DESCRIPTION:
An Islamic pestle of faceted cross-section with knop terminal, engraved with stylised palm trees and cursive between scroll bands.

PERIOD:
late 13th Century

A SAFAVID PIERCED STEEL ALAM

DESCRIPTION:
A flat rounded profile rising from a short knop and tapering toward cusped intermediate element, slightly flaring at top with cusped finial,