Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds including Oriental Rugs and Carpets

Virtual tour: Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds Including Oriental Rugs and Carpets

From holy script to Huroufiyah — the sweep of Islamic calligraphy through the centuries

Lionel Messi’s record-breaking boots to be offered online

How to commission a bespoke piece of jewellery

Jonathan Bastable

Place bids from anywhere in the world

A brilliant fragment of an important ‘Vase’ carpet from the reign of Shah Abbas the Great

‘A rare survival from a golden age’ — a 400-year-old Persian carpet of outstanding quality

Persia’s fashion-obsessed Fath ’Ali Shah — and a few of his 250 sons