Word: rugs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia millionnaire art collector: "Directly following the marriage last week of my daughter, Fifi (see p. 32) it was reported from Manhattan that my agent had purchased, for $100,000, a rug once belonging to the late Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey. The rug has a background of moss-green creepers, with orange-red stems, among which deer, gazelles, sheep, goats are pursued by lions and leopards.* There is a centre medallion of rose-crimson, with vine traceries in pink and silver around four hawklike birds...
...Paramount Building at 43rd Street and Times Square. Most of the money went into equipment-marble lobby, rotunda, halls; 3,900 seats; elevators, even to the cheapest gallery seats, lounge rooms, the music room for people waiting to be seated in the theatre. The rug is lighted so that latecomers can find a softly glowing path to their seats in a darkened theatre. But large further sums were spent on such bric-a- brackery, such articles of virtu, as 37 bronze-labeled stones from foreign countries in the "Hall of Nations." This hall also contains a bronze bas-relief...
...determination to get the Orient out of Russia he moved his capital away from Moscow, built himself a Versailles, procured a Pompadour, and made hunting into a pageant, trotting out on horseback like a Bourbon, with ribbons, hounds, bugles, spears, and streamers. Because the rug showed a hunting scene he became very fond...
...slow Persian craftsmen, who made the rug out of silk threads, wove into it animals, riders, flowers. Horsemen move to and fro, pursuing lions, antelopes, ibexes, boars, hares, foxes, jackals and other beasts; many flowers, some western, some Persian, and some the flowers of no land, riot softly on the ground, or hang from delicate vines. The background is salmon-colored. Around the central field runs a quiet legend. In the middle all js speed: bugles blow there, stallions leap, and the beards of riding Khans shake out like flame along a wind of fruits and blossoms. But the border...
...border that charmed Leopold, that man of peace. He spent most of his life directing wars against Louis XIV, but he disliked soldiers, particularly his own, never visited a battlefield, and was embarrassed by maneuvers. The rug hung over his bed in an elaborate and jejune country place to which he retired for meditation and amour. It is said that two violin players, blindfolded with black silk handkerchiefs, fiddled at the head and foot of the bed while he was taking his pleasure. He died in 1705 and the rug passed through the estates of a series of princes. Connoisseurs...