This rectangular silk lampas panel depicting two male figures, one holding ropes controlling a fishing net, the other holding their catch, a river runs across the lower part of panel, around them various flowering plants and vines, associated Safavid floral border, on block-printed backing material. 35 by 27 cm. PROVENANCE: Private collection, Dr. I. Lak, United Kingdom CATALOGUE NOTE Two fragments of this panel are in the Textile Museum in Washington D.C., acquired by George Hewitt Myers in 1952. Of which Carol Bier writes in ‘Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart’. Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran 16th-19th centuries, exhibition catalogue, Washington D.C., 1987; that fishing seems a curious subject matter for a luxury textile, lacking as it is, for instance, the heroic postures and associations of the royal hunt.