Word: persian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emphasis will be placed on the evolution of Persian art the exhibits arranged to illustrate sources, influences, development, mutations since 3,000 B. C. Prizes will be offered for designs based on exhibit specimens most applicable to modern industrial art. The specimen exhibit will be augmented by 10,000 photographs of Persian architecture, art, and archeology not removable to London. Chief aim is to demonstrate on a great scale what has been known to only a small circle of specialists...
...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...
Carpets. Most famed Persian rug is "The Emperor's Hunting Carpet," woven in the 16th century reign of Tahmasp Shah who was to Persian art as was Louis XIV to French. A border string of clear gold cartouches separates the ruby field from the main border. Vines rise in colliding spirals of great blossoms, leaves, tendrils. Wild animals fight. Shah Abbas the Great presented it to Russia about 1600, Tsar Peter the Great to Habsburg Leopold...
...Collections. Noteworthy are the Persian treasures of these U. S. collectors: John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (rugs), the Metropolitan Museum's Havemeyer collection (most extensive and varied-glassware, pottery, earthenware bowls), Horace Havemeyer (rugs, pottery), Mortimer Schiff (pottery, including a famed Rhages bowl) and lesser collections owned by Charles B. Hoyt, George Pratt, Walter P. Chrysler, Mrs. William H. Moore, Mrs. Rainey Rogers...
...First International Persian exhibit was held in 1926 at Pennsylvania Museum of Art in Philadelphia in conjunction with the U. S. sesquicentennial. †In A. D. 224-651 Persia was called Sassania...