An auction of 35 beautiful pieces of Islamic art and India from the late H. collection will be held in the British capital, London, on the first of next April. Peter Stern, and his collection reflects his quest for "world photos", with Ottoman composite panels of silk and velvet furnishings, and velvet Mughal tents, decorated with floral motifs, along with the delicate watercolor of the company's school. Stern lived with these treasures in his home, Cedar House, in the lower Hudson Valley - selectively decorated, mixing east and west, ancient and modern, intellectual, spiritual, and cultural.

Kashan jug

Kashan Polished Pottery Turquoise, circa 1200 - 1220 AD, Persia (estimated price 120 - 160 thousand pounds sterling).

This magnificent jug demonstrates the tremendous innovations in ceramic decoration in Persia at the end of the 12th century, with exceptional sophistication and freedom of design. A series of motifs wrap around the turquoise body, as intricate palm inlay merges with manuscript inscriptions.

In the early 1940's, this piece was believed to have been discovered among a number of similar vessels buried in the large pottery oil jars of Gorgan. These supplies may have been from a merchant who imported them from Kashan, and they were hidden for safekeeping on the eve of the Mongol invasion.

Originally published in 1949, previously exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. (1966-1968), as well as the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (1985), it will now be publicly displayed for the first time since then.

A box of "mulch"

A box of "mulch" or "Nasiriyah" from Spain in the 12th / 13th century (estimated price 200-300 thousand pounds sterling).

This eight-sided box, which has not been published before, is one of the first manifestations of the decorative style that is often associated with the Muslim region in the medieval Mediterranean, where it will be displayed for the first time in a public auction, after it remained in the same group since the seventies of the last century. Artifacts from this period from the history of Andalusia are scarce, and this piece combines with a small group of woodwork dating back to the late 12th or early 13th century, that used traditional partial mosaics and decorative veneers.

Pearl necklace

Nave Lara pearl necklace set with nine rows of diamonds, since the late 19th / early 20th centuries in India (estimated price 40-50,000 pounds).

It consists of nine rows of pearls, each of which is delicately attached to necklaces inlaid with a group of precious stones, to reach a climax in a carved emerald bead. Umm Kulthum, and it was finally displayed in the Louvre Abu Dhabi. This piece is part of a wider group that was once held by an Indian princess.

Luxurious Mughal and Ottoman fabrics from the collection of a rare 13th-century pottery jug from the famous treasures of Gorgan

The group belongs to H. Peter Stern reflects his quest for global imagery.

The necklace consists of 9 rows of pearls, each of which is delicately suspended with necklaces studded with precious stones.