An Introduction to Persian Art Since the Seventh Century A.D. |
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17th century Achæmenian æsthetic Albert Museum animals arabesques arch architecture Art Institute artistic beautiful blue Boston Museum bowl brocades bronze carpets Céramique Chahil Sutun Chinese colour colour-plate court decoration delicate developed dome early enamel enrichment examples faience Figure finest flowers forms found at Ray fourteenth century fragments garden glass glaze gold green Hamadan Herat incised Institute of Chicago Isfahan Islamic Islamic Pottery Kaiser Friedrich Museum Kapu Kashan Kuehnel Kufic Kunst London lustre Mashad Masjid-i-Jâmi Masjid-i-Shah metal Metropolitan Museum mihrab miniatures mosaic faience mosques motifs ornament painted painters Palace panels Paris Parish-Watson Collection patterns perfect period Persian art Photo Pope pieces pottery relief Riefstahl Riza Samarra Sasanian Saveh Seljuk seventeenth century Shah Abbas Shiraz silk silver sixteenth century sometimes stucco style Sultanieh surface Tabriz technique tenth century textile tiles tion tones tradition turquoise Varamin vases velvet Victoria and Albert wares weaving Yazd