Word: peacock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peacock Throne." The only object of Persian art at all familiar to average occidentals is the famed throne upon which sit Persia's Shahs. And this came from India, not Persia. Built in the reign of Shah Jahan (1627-58) in India's "golden age of architecture," it appeared in Persia after the sack of Delhi by Nadir Shah in 1738. Designer is thought to have been Ustad Isa, reputed creator of the Taj Mahal. Before it was stripped of most of its appurtenances, silver steps led up to the throne proper, a peacock tail canopy overspread...
Edward Robert Peacock, director Baring Brothers...
...Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts and the Society of French Artists-prime event of the French art year, real Parisians as well as gaping tourists lined up in open admiration before the portrait of a pretty, shapely young woman in a bright red gown against a peacock-blue background-Camilla Loyall Ashe Sewall Edge, wife of the U. S. Ambassador, by Portraitist Edward Everett...