Celebrating Asian Art

ONE OF FOUR KNOWN SAFAVID FIGURAL VEVET PANELS
A large Safavid silk velvet panel (detail)
Persia, 1600-25 A.D.
165 x 31 cm. (65 x 12 ¼ in.)
Provenance:
This panel and three others were sold by Spink & Son in the 1980s, when they were said to have been found in Tibet.
Spink & Son, London, 1987
Private collection, London, 1987-2022

A Safavid cobalt-backed blue-and-white pottery dish
Persia, probably Kirman, mid-seventeenth century
Dia. 41.5 cm. (16 1/8 in.); H. 8 cm. (3 1/8 in.)
Provenance:
Private collection (d.1998), England
Christie’s, London, 6 October 2011, lot 171
Private collection, London, 2011-2021

A highly unusual Iznik pottery rimless dish depicting a turbaned hunter on horseback about to ford a river
Turkey, circa 1580
Dia. 30 cm. (11 ¾ in.)
Provenance:
Fernand Adda (1890-1965), Alexandria: sold Palais Galliera, Paris, 3 December 1965, lot 893
Cyril Humphris, London, 1967
Sotheby’s, London, 4 December 1972, lot 37: Eskenazi, Milan
Private collection, Italy: sold Christie’s, London, 17 June 1999, lot 1
Private collection, London, 1999-2021
Published:
Bernard Rackham, Islamic Pottery and Italian Majolica, London, 1959, pp. 142-3, pl. 226
Cyril Humphries, 69 pieces of Islamic Pottery and Italian Maiolica from the Adda Collection, London, 1967, no. 14