The Edith & Stuart Cary Welch Collection

Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II of Bijapur riding his elephant Atash Khan, attributed to Farrukh Beg (Fa

Prince Dara Shikoh with a group of holy men, attributed to Govardhan, India, Mughal, circa 1635-40

A magnificent and important zoomorphic gilt-copper dagger set with rubies and emeralds, India, Decca

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The Edith & Stuart Cary Welch Collection

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Stuart Cary Welch (1928–2008) was a gifted scholar and hugely influential figure in the study of Indian and Middle Eastern arts. He shared this journey with his wife Edith, with whom he built the most extraordinary collection of artworks. After two record-breaking sales of Cary's Islamic and Indian art in 2011, Sotheby's is honoured to offer the Edith & Stuart Cary Welch Collection, boasting an impressive array of Indian paintings and objects, alongside a wide range of artworks including European silver, Chinese, Tibetan and Japanese art. For assistance with bidding and registration, please contact: Bids.london@sothebys.com (+44) 207 293 5283 (bids general line) For sale enquiries please contact: Edward Gibbs Chairman Middle East and India +44 20 7293 5332 EDWARD.GIBBS@SOTHEBYS.COM Benedict Carter Senior Director Head of Department Islamic & Indian Art +44 20 7293 5113 BENEDICT.CARTER@SOTHEBYS.COM Shiona Fourie Senior Project Manager Private European Collections & Single Owner Sales +44 20 7293 5470 SHIONA.FOURIE@SOTHEBYS.COM Rukmani Kumari Rathore Specialist Islamic & Indian Art RUKMANI.RATHORE@SOTHEBYS.COM Louise Lebrun Project Coordinator Researcher & Department Assistant Islamic and Indian Art +44 20 7293 5755 LOUISE.LEBRUN@SOTHEBYS.COM ?Frankie Keyworth Associate Specialist Islamic & Indian Art +44 20 7293 5294 FRANKIE.KEYWORTH@SOTHEBYS.COM Miles Harrison Specialist Silver +44 (0)20 7293 5304 MILES.HARRISON@SOTHEBYS.COM Julian King Senior Vice President International Specialist & Head of Sale Chinese and Himalayan Art +1 212 606 7332 JULIAN.KING@SOTHEBYS.COM ?Gordon Lo Deputy Director Chinese Works of Art +44 20 7293 5371 GORDON.LO@SOTHEBYS.COM Connie Chau Cataloguer Chinese Works of Art +44 20 7293 5721 CONNIE.CHAU@SOTHEBYS.COM Mark Hinton Director Head of Japanese Works of Art +44 20 7293 6537 MARK.HINTON@SOTHEBYS.COM Jon Adjetey Associate Specialist Japanese Woorks of Art +44 20 7293 6325 JON.ADJETEY@SOTHEBYS.COM

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An archaic jade blade (Ge), Early Shang dynasty | 商玉戈: length 27.3 cm. (10¾in.) Provenance Ben Janssens Oriental Art, London, 12 March 2008 Catalogue note Excavations from the elite tombs of the Shang dynasty show remarkable quantities of jade

0001: An archaic jade blade (Ge), Early Shang dynasty | 商玉戈Est. £4,000-£6,000Lot Closed

An archaic pale brown jade notched blade (Fu), Shang dynasty | 商玉斧: length 22.8 cm. (9 in.) Catalogue note The ancient Chinese character of 'father' depicted a hand holding an axe, representing a leader of a family or a tribe. The word also shares the same

0002: An archaic pale brown jade notched blade (Fu), Shang dynasty | 商玉斧Est. £4,000-£6,000Lot Closed

An archaic greenish-grey jade axe (Yue), Shang dynasty | 商玉鉞: length 14.2cm. (5 ⅝ in.) Provenance J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 8 May 1996 Catalogue note While collectively termed 'axe' in English, jade axes have variations of translations in

0003: An archaic greenish-grey jade axe (Yue), Shang dynasty | 商玉鉞Est. £3,000-£5,000Lot Closed

An archaic bronze 'dragon' ceremonial blade (Qi), Spring and Autumn period | 戰國 ຦: length 13cm. (5⅛ in.) Catalogue note Compare a ceremonial dagger axe modelled with a sinous dragon, included in the exhibition Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong

0004: An archaic bronze 'dragon' ceremonial blade (Qi), Spring and Autumn period | 戰國 ຦Est. £4,000-£6,000Lot Closed

An archaic inlaid bronze dagger (Ge), Warring States period | 戰國青銅ä: length 15.5cm. (6⅛ in.) Catalogue note The present bronze halberd blade was likely from the Wu state during the Spring and Autumn period. This attribution is supported by a similar

0005: An archaic inlaid bronze dagger (Ge), Warring States period | 戰國青銅äEst. £7,000-£9,000Lot Closed

A gilt-bronze rectangular plaque, Qin / Western Han dynasty | 秦 / 西漢鎏&#: length 9.3cm. (3 ⅝in.) Catalogue note Depicted with two recumbent rams below a row of interlinked ram heads, this plaque exemplifies the cross-cultural exchanged during the Qin / Western Han

0006: A gilt-bronze rectangular plaque, Qin / Western Han dynasty | 秦 / 西漢鎏&#Est. £4,000-£6,000Lot Closed

A gold-inlaid bronze 'tiger' fragment, Warring States period | 戰國青銅%: Length 22 cm, 8¾ in. Catalogue note Modelled with a ferocious tiger and tapering to a narrow end, this elaborately decorated fitting was made to cap the foot of ceremonial poles of

0007: A gold-inlaid bronze 'tiger' fragment, Warring States period | 戰國青銅%Est. £7,000-£9,000Lot Closed

An archaic bronze mask, late Shang / early Western Zhou dynasty | 商末 / 西周: length 19.8cm. (7 ¾in.) Provenance C.T. Loo, New York, 7 October 1954 Exhibited Pomona College, Claremont, 1947 American Federation of Arts, Washington, D.C., 1949 Fort Worth Museum, Fort

0008: An archaic bronze mask, late Shang / early Western Zhou dynasty | 商末 / 西周Est. £20,000-£30,000Lot Closed

An archaic bronze ritual tripod food vessel (Liding), late Shang dynasty | 商末青: diameter 14cm. (5 ½in.) Catalogue note Bronze tripod food vessels were among the most significant ritual objects associated with authority and supremacy. Owners of such were of elite

0009: An archaic bronze ritual tripod food vessel (Liding), late Shang dynasty | 商末青Est. £15,000-£25,000Lot Closed

An illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Anwar-I Suhayli of Husayn Va'iz Kashifi (D.1504): the : ink, gouache and gold on paper, text written in nasta'liq script in black ink above and below miniature, text area ruled in gold, wide margins, the reverse with 17 lines of text, lower margin of

0010: An illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Anwar-I Suhayli of Husayn Va'iz Kashifi (D.1504): the Est. £10,000-£15,000Lot Closed

Deer, birds and flowering trees, India, Mughal, probably Fatehpur Sikri, circa 1570: gouache on cloth, reverse blank 26.8 by 18.4cm. (10 9/16 by 7 ¼ in.) with border: 27.5 by 19cm. (10 ¹³⁄₁₆ by 7 ½ in.) Provenance Acquired by Cary Welch by

0011: Deer, birds and flowering trees, India, Mughal, probably Fatehpur Sikri, circa 1570Est. £30,000-£50,000Lot Closed

A large red sandstone crenel, India, Mughal, late 16th century: A large red sandstone architectural element, India, Mughal, late 16th century sandstone carved with a floral palmette and half-medallion, two small roundels containing the word 'Allah', the reverse

0012: A large red sandstone crenel, India, Mughal, late 16th centuryEst. £60,000-£80,000Lot Closed

A ruler enthroned holding a mirror or sun-disc, probably Iskandar and the magic mirror, India, Decca: ink with use of colours and gold on paper, mounted on an album page above a small drawing of two wrestlers, inner borders of blue and marbled paper, outer borders of silver-sprinkled and plain cream

0013: A ruler enthroned holding a mirror or sun-disc, probably Iskandar and the magic mirror, India, DeccaEst. £6,000-£8,000Lot Closed

A steel push-dagger (katar), India, Mughal or Deccan, 17th century: the double-edged blade with tapering ridges and shallow triangular grooves, smaller abstract grooves on either side of the ridges, the hilt with a three-bar cross-grip, the bars terminating

0014: A steel push-dagger (katar), India, Mughal or Deccan, 17th centuryEst. £4,000-£6,000Lot Closed

Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II of Bijapur riding his elephant Atash Khan, attributed to Farrukh Beg (Fa: gouache with gold on paper, borders of pale green and cream paper flecked with gold, verso with composite horse and rider, with similar borders recto painting: 14.1 by 10.1cm. (5

0015: Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II of Bijapur riding his elephant Atash Khan, attributed to Farrukh Beg (FaEst. £300,000-£500,000Lot Closed

A magnificent and important zoomorphic gilt-copper dagger set with rubies and emeralds, India, Decca: A magnificent and important zoomorphic gilt-copper dagger set with rubies and emeralds, India, Deccan, Bijapur or Golconda, late 16th century with a curved, double-edged watered steel blade, each

0016: A magnificent and important zoomorphic gilt-copper dagger set with rubies and emeralds, India, DeccaEst. £200,000-£300,000Lot Closed

Six Mughal silver-gilt bridle ornaments, North India, Delhi or Agra, 17th century: each in the form of a pair of entwined fish, with two rectangular metal loops on the reverse 4cm. (1 9/16in.) max. width (6)

0017: Six Mughal silver-gilt bridle ornaments, North India, Delhi or Agra, 17th centuryEst. £7,000-£10,000Lot Closed

A fine Mughal silk sash (patka), India, Mughal, late 17th century: silk and silver and silver-gilt thread, fringe of silver-gilt thread 256.5 by 49.5cm. (101 by 19 ½ in.) Provenance Acquired by Cary Welch by 1980-81 Literature W. Dalrymple and Y. Sharma

0018: A fine Mughal silk sash (patka), India, Mughal, late 17th centuryEst. £30,000-£50,000Lot Closed

A carved jade horse head dagger, India, Mughal, probably Agra or Delhi, second quarter 17th century: the hilt of mottled and streaked nephrite jade ranging in tone from dark grey to pale grey, finely carved and abraded in the form of a horse’s head with incised mane, set-back ears, flared

0019: A carved jade horse head dagger, India, Mughal, probably Agra or Delhi, second quarter 17th centuryEst. £80,000-£120,000Lot Closed

Prince Dara Shikoh with a group of holy men, attributed to Govardhan, India, Mughal, circa 1635-40: gouache and gold on paper, plain buff paper borders, reverse with an inscription in Devanagari '100/ kimati 35 asa...' miniature: 22.2 by 15cm. (8 ¾ by 5 ⅞ in.) page: 27.8 by 19.8cm. (11

0020: Prince Dara Shikoh with a group of holy men, attributed to Govardhan, India, Mughal, circa 1635-40Est. £250,000-£350,000Lot Closed

A Mughal rock crystal mango-shaped flask inlaid with rubies and emeralds set in gold, India, Mughal,: cut into two equal halves from a single block of crystal and carved and polished in the form of a mango fruit, with a single bore hole forming an aperture at the top mounted with a gold collar, the

0021: A Mughal rock crystal mango-shaped flask inlaid with rubies and emeralds set in gold, India, Mughal,Est. £100,000-£150,000Lot Closed

A portrait of the infant Shah Shuja, signed by Abu’l-Hasan Nadir al-Zaman, India, Mughal, circ: gouache and gold on paper, signed at lower edge "raqam-i bandieh be ikhlas nadir al-zaman” ('work of the sincerest slave the wonder of the age'), gold-flecked blue and green borders miniature:

0022: A portrait of the infant Shah Shuja, signed by Abu’l-Hasan Nadir al-Zaman, India, Mughal, circEst. £200,000-£300,000Lot Closed

A Mughal cuerda seca pottery tile, North India or Lahore, 17th century: decorated in the cuerda seca technique with green, yellow, orange, white and blue glazes, the reverse with old exhibition label 'Fogg Art Museum / LOAN', label bearing inventory number in red ink and

0023: A Mughal cuerda seca pottery tile, North India or Lahore, 17th centuryEst. £4,000-£6,000Lot Closed

A bidri brass and silver-inlaid pandan, India, Deccan, 17th century: of circular form, the body with straight sides, domed lid, the exterior of the body and lid decorated with elegant scrolling floral vines inlaid with brass and silver, a band of inlaid foliate motifs

0024: A bidri brass and silver-inlaid pandan, India, Deccan, 17th centuryEst. £12,000-£18,000Lot Closed

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