Word: sassanian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Persia and China quarreled about in the Seventh Century no U. S. Persian could remember last week. An agreement between the two countries was signed in 1920, but even that did not result in an exchange of representatives. In fact no quarrel occurred. When the Sassanian dynasty fell 1,300 years ago all permanent relations with foreign countries were broken off. Successively Persia was ruled by various Arab conquerors, the Turks, Afghans. Recently Shah Reza Khan Pahlevi, who has been anxious to restore diplomatic relations after the 1,300-year lapse, discovered that Nanking was also willing. Hossein Khan...
Exhibits. Besides Persia, 19 countries will send specimens of Persian art to London. From Egypt will go treasures of Cairo Museum and the Khedivial library, from Russia famed silver, gold, bronze Sassanian† vessels. Museums and private collections in the U. S. (including Manhattan's Metropolitan, Chicago's Art Institute), and in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland will contribute Persian pieces...
...doors of Burlington House open there will be on view 100 carpets, more than 1,000 textiles, 1,500 paintings & drawings, hundreds of the finest extant Persian book covers, more than 1,000 pieces of faïence, a priceless collection of illuminated manuscripts, bronzes from Achaemenian and Sassanian times, sculpture, architectural and ornamental detail, friezes, ceramics, enamel, glassware, brocades, velvets, tapestries, gold and silver work, a unique collection of Saljuk silverware, gold and silver inlay, lacquer work. Notable will be a group of remarkably preserved bronze Achaemenian objects of great sculptural beauty and vigor recently unearthed in Luristan Province...