Word: jahan
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Before the Mongols, porcelain was glazed in one color. Under the Yuan rulers, blue-and-white vessels were developed, and became widely popular. One of the 32 pieces in the Cleveland show belonged to the 17th century Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan, builder of India's Taj Mahal. Among other exports on exhibit are Chinese silks found in Arab tombs in Africa and early carved cinnebar lacquerware, lent by a Japanese temple. But it was in defiance of Mongol tastes that one of the greatest of China's arts-scroll painting-made the largest advance of all. The most...
...days later accepted his proposal. Thereafter Stone's genius shone with a special brilliance, and they called the wind that fanned the flame Maria. For her he built one of his famed grillework facades on a $250,000 Manhattan town house, "just as," she explained, "the Shah Jahan did the Taj Mahal in India for his wife." But the Taj Mahal, of course, is a tomb, and behind the Stone front ember day came as well. Suing in Manhattan for a separation allowance of $6,500 a month, Maria Stone, now 38, charged that the 62-year-old architect...
Kennedy said: "I'm glad you can appreciate him. I'd much rather have Sardar." Where Jackie had thrilled to the beauty of India's Taj Mahal, built three centuries ago by the Mogul emperor, Shah Jahan, as a memorial to his wife, in Pakistan she was excited by the glitter of the 80-acre Shalimar Gardens, built by the same ruler as a memorial to his father. There she strolled along a red-carpeted walk beside glistening pools, while balloons floated about her, fountains shimmered and 7,000 guests looked on. "All my life...
Your article claims the Peacock Throne to have been taken from the Persians by the Turks in 1514, and brought to Istanbul. In 1514, that famous throne did not even exist. The Peacock Throne was installed by Shah Jahan, Mogul Emperor of Taj Mahal fame, at Delhi. It was carried off by the Persian invader Nadir Shah in 1739, and now stands in the Gulistan Palace, a museum in Teheran, Iran...