Word: ispahan
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...father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the fiery and magnetic founder of the Pakistan People's Party, who himself would become a martyr for democracy when he was executed in 1979 by the military dictatorship of General Zia ul Haq. She inherited her bearing and physical presence from her mother Nusrat Ispahan, from a distinguished Kurdish family from Iran. Educated at Radcliffe and Harvard, she would also study law at Oxford. Her family and close Western friends knew her as "Pinky...
...REVIEW "THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA" : IN THE NAME OF ALLAH THE COMPASSIONATE, THE MERCIFUL, O GREAT AND ALL-SEEING SPLENDID TIME, I WILL AGREE TO SEND YOU FORTHWITH A DANCING GIRL FROM ISPAHAN IF YOU CAN PROVE ONE SET USED IN "HAJJI BABA" WAS NOT DESIGNED AND BUILT ESPECIALLY FOR THIS LUSCIOUS PERSIAN CINEMASCOPE...
...commission (7½%). Over the block passed Flemish, early German and French paintings, English mezzotints, sketches and water colors by Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard; Gothic, Gobelin and Beauvais tapestries; Louis XIV carpets, Louis XV gueridons, Louis XVI marquetry and console tables; della Robbia terra cottas, Sevres porcelain, Limoges enamels, Ispahan rugs, Italian crystal and marbles, bronzes, Oriental rugs, precious saltcellars, marriage coffers, inkstands, candlesticks...
...diamond necklace and breastplate-$15,000; 24 leaves from the Gutenberg Bible- $5,100; a first edition of Gray's Elegy- $3,500; a second edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Poems-$3,400; a complete set of Declaration of Independence signers- $18,989; an Ispahan palace carpet-$13,000 a glazed terra cotta altarpiece from the workshop of Delia Robbia-$7,600; a two-handled Queen Anne silver cup and cover - $1,550; a 16th Century Tournai tapestry...
...Joseph Duveen did not come away empty handed. For $106,000 he bought a royal Ispahan palace carpet and a marquetry boudoir table for $71,000. The Galleries of the American Art Association were crowded with notables, most of them watching dealers bid for them. Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts bought a carpet. All of Judge Gary's things were "good," that is, authentic...