IRAN, 17TH CENTURY

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A SAFAVID SILK BROCADE PANEL
IRAN, 17TH CENTURY
The silk panel of near square form, the light blue ground decorated with offset rows of a composition in which a serpent-like dragon hides beneath colourful foliage and looks up threateningly at a phoenix in flight, areas of wear
26¾ x 27 5/8in. (67 x 70.3cm.)

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Lot Essay

A panel of this silk was obviously at one stage owned by Phyllis Ackerman and Arthur Upham Pope (where it is attributed to Yazd). A single element of the design is drawn out as a design in the text volume of A Survey of Persian Art, Oxford, 1938, p.2112, fig.619b. In the discussion Ackerman describes the technique, which is clearly the same as that found here, and tentatively attributes the cloth to the weaver Saliha.

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