AN EXTRAORDINARY STLISTIC SAFAVID TILE PANEL

PERIOD :

1930 STLISTIC SAFAVID TILE PANEL

ORIGIN:

PERSIA

DIMENSIONS:

All measurements include frame of 1cm 139.3-1891 measures 9.5 x 10 x 2.5 cm ( square format) 139.4-1891 not measured (rectangular format)

DESCRIPTION:

In a Stlistic Safavid Tile Panel with Picnic Scene,

Springtime scenes of outdoor meals or entertainments were popular in Safavid art and poetry. Here a young woman is the centre of attention, surrounded by her attendants. The blue-and-white vessels on the ground may be Chinese, or Iranian copies. This tile panel covered the lower part of a wall, probably in a palace in Isfahan. It is shaped to fit under a window or niche.

Earthenware under coloured glazes

This tile panel covered the lower part of a wall, probably in a palace in Isfahan. It is shaped to fit under a window or niche. It shows a springtime scene of an outdoor entertainment. A young woman is the focus of the composition, surrounded by her attendants.

FOOTNOTES:

Voyage en Perse de MM. Eugène Flandin, peintre, et Pascal Coste, architecte, Paris, 1851-4, pl. LI. Pascal Coste, Monuments modernes de la Perse, Paris, 1867, p.31 pl. XLI, XLII, XLIII. S.G.W. Benjamin, Persia and the Persians, London: John Murray, 1887, p.301 (‘Old Mural Painting of Tiles from Palace of Shah Abbass’). Jane Dieulafoy, La Perse, la Chaldée et la Susiane , Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1887, pp. 239 and 254. Tim Stanley (ed.), with Mariam Rosser-Owen and Stephen Vernoit, Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art from the Middle East, London, V&A Publications, 2004 pp. 64, 85 Farshid Emami, “All the City’s Courtesans: A Now-Lost Safavid Pavilion and Its Figural Tile Panels”, The Metropolitan Museum Journal, LIV (2019): 62-86.