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Exhibition Review
Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece
08/2023 | 1445 | 165
Pages: 895–898
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Reviewer:
Gardner-Dseagu, Christine (Gardner-Dseagu, Christine)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Greece / Persia
styles:
Achaemenid / Parthian / Sassanian / Hellenistic / Greek (ancient) School
subjects:
Antiquity / Material culture (genre)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece British Museum, London 4th May–13th August | :
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Plate showing a banqueting scene based on the triumph of Dionysos. Parthian or early Sasanian, 100– 300. Silver and gold, diameter 22.3 cm. (British Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
8. Drinking mug in the form of a lion’s head. Greek, 500–470 BC. Pottery with redfigure decoration, height 14 cm. (British Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
9. Rhyton terminating in a stag’s head decorated with episodes from the myths of Herakles and Theseus. Hellenistic (found in Panagyurishte, Bulgaria), c.300 BC. Gold, height 13.7 cm. (National Museum of History, Sofia; exh. British Museum, London).
Exhibition Review
Epic Iran
09/2021 | 1422 | 163
Pages: 826-839
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Reviewer:
Babaie, Susan (Babaie, Susan)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Iran / Persia
styles:
Achaemenid / Parthian / Sassanian / Islamic / Safavid
subjects:
History / Ceramics / Metalwork / Manuscripts / Archaeology / Architectural history / Mosques / Paintings / Silverwork
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Epic Iran Victoria and Albert Museum, London 29th May–12th September | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Ladies around a samovar, by Isma’il Jalayir. c.1870s. Oil on canvas, 156.5 by 213 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
1. Qaran unhorses Barman. Tabriz, Iran, c.1525–35. Ink, watercolour and gold on paper, 47 by 31.5 cm. (Private collection; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Figurine of a man. 3200–2900 BC. Bronze, height 17.5 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Full-size painted copy of a section of the interior of the dome of the Mosque of Sheikh Lutfallah, Isfahan. 1877. Oil and pigments on canvas, 1024 by 216 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Article
Parthian and Sasanian Metalwork in the Bomford Collection
06/1976 | 879 | 118
Pages: 356+358-361
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Author:
Moorey, P. R. S. (Moorey, P. R. S.)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Bomford, James
places:
England / London
places:
Persia / Iran
subjects:
Collections, Private / Metalwork
subjects:
Persian / Sassanian / Parthian
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
10. 'White-Bronze' (Speculum) Jar. South Caspian Area, Third or Fourth Century A. D. Height, 13 cm. Diameter of Mouth (Including Rim Flange), 7.1 cm. (Collection James Bomford).
Non-western art unattributed:
11. Cast Bronze Handle-Plate for a Vessel. ?Sasanian, Period Uncertain. Greatest Height, 17 cm. Wing Span 21.2 cm. (Collection James Bomford).
Non-western art unattributed:
12. Reverse of the Handle-Plate Illustrated in Fig.11.
Non-western art unattributed:
8. Silver-Gilt Bowl. ?Syria, about Second Half of Second Century B. C. Height, 6.7 cm. Diameter of Mouth, 11.8 cm. (Collection James Bomford).
Non-western art unattributed:
9. Sheet Bronze Lid(?). Early Sasanian Period, about Early Fourth Century A. D. Length, 14.3 cm. Maximum Width, 7 cm. (Collection James Bomford).
Short Notice
Recent Museum Acquisitions: Blue Glass Facet-Cut Ewer (Corning Museum of Glass, New York)
03/1966 | 756 | 108
Pages: 143+145
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Subjects
dates:
1960-1969
dates:
0100-0199 / 0200-0299
museums and institutions:
Corning Museum of Glass, New York, United States
places:
United States / New York / Iran
subjects:
Art museums / Acquisitions / Glassware / Ewers
subjects:
Sassanian / Parthian
subjects:
Persian
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
51. Facet-Cut Ewer. Late Parthian or Early Sassanian Origin. Second-Third Century A. D. Height, 14.3 cm. (Corning Museum of Glass, New York.)
Article
Partho-Sassanian Ceramics
08/1935 | 389 | 67
Pages: 70-73+77
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Author:
Erdmann, Kurt (Erdmann, Kurt)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Kelekian, Dikran G., 1868-1951
places:
Iran / Persia / Dura-Europos, Syria (deserted settlement) / Syria
subjects:
Ceramics / Pottery / Parthian / Sassanian
subjects:
Persian / Syrian
subjects:
Seleucid / Archaeology / Excavations / Collections, Private
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. The Triumph of Shāpūr I over Valerian. Stone Relief at Shāpūr. Sassanian. Partho-Sassanian Ceramics
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. A-The Mounted Silenus, Fragment from Dura-Europos (Gallery of Fine Arts, Yale University); B-Rhyton from Babylon. Seleucid or Parthian; C-Two-Handled Vase. Present Height, 27 cm. (The Kelekian Collection); D-Figure on One of the Key-Stones of the Parthian Palace at Hatra. Partho-Sassanian Ceramics
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. E, F, G-Rhyton, Here Identified as Partho-Sassanian. Height, about 36 cm. (British Museum). Partho-Sassanian Ceramics