Adrian Sassoon

Adrian Sassoon (born February 1961) is an English art dealer, art collector and writer. He was schooled at Eton College, where he was taught ceramics by Gordon Baldwin; he went on to study further at Christie’s School of Design. He worked as an assistant curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum in the department of decorative arts. He is the owner and founder of a gallery that shows contemporary art, as well as 18th Century French porcelain.

Sassoon is a member of the Sassoon family, and was born in London, the son of Hugh Meyer Sassoon (first cousin of Siegfried Sassoon) and Marion (née Schiff); he is the great-great grandson of Sassoon David Sassoon.

• Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain from a European Private Collection, International Ceramics Fair & Seminar, 2001
• Jewels by JAR, Essay by Adrian Sassoon for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

• Vincennes and Sèvres porcelain – catalogue of the collections written for the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1991.
• Decorative arts: a handbook of the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum.
• Kate Malone Inspired by Waddesdon published and forward by Adrian Sassoon 2016.