A Fragment from the Von Hirsch Garden Carpet, Northwest Persia, 17th century

Robert von Hirsch (1883-1977), Germany and Switzerland;

The Robert Von Hirsch Collection, Volume Three, Furniture & Porcelain, Sotheby's Parke Bernet, London, 23 and 27 June 1978, lot 501 (part);

With Alan Marcuson, by 1979;

Lefevre & Partners, London, 27 April 1979, lot 16;

Christopher Alexander (1936-2022), Berkeley, before 1993;

The Christopher Alexander Collection, Christie's, London, 15 October 1998, lot 216;

Sir Howard Hodgkin CH CBE (1932-2017), London;

Howard Hodgkin, Portrait of the Artist, Sotheby's, London, 24 October 2017, lot 241;

Where acquired by the present collector.

San Francisco, M. H. de Young Museum, The Christopher Alexander Collection, November 1990 - February 1991.

HALI, vol. II, no. 1, Spring 1979, advertising p. 66;

"With hindsight: 1978 - 1988", HALI, no. 42, November-December 1988, reproduced p. 89;

C. Alexander, A Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art, the Color and Geometry of Very Early Turkish Carpets, New York and Oxford, 1993, pp. 280-282, reproduced p. 281;

"Auction Price Guide", HALI, no. 102, January 1999, pp. 125-126;

D. Shaffer, "Season of mists", HALI, no. 193, 2017, pp. 122-125, reproduced fig. 3;

"Auction Price Guide", HALI, no. 194, 2017, p. 143.