The Potteries of Persia : being a brief history of the art of ceramics in the Near East (1909)
Kelekian, Dikran khan, 1868-1951 · Paris : H. Clarke · leaf 9
THE POTTERIES OF PERSIA The comparatively recent opening up of the Near East to explorers and archaeologists has introduced to the civilized world an art of incompar- able beauty, richness and charm, all that remains of a civilization of another epoch, of a period when the peoples of the Oriental… … tragedy of Life, these sweet and melancholy songs have taken their place among the literary masterpieces of all time. Of the same quality of inspiration was the contemporary art of Persia, an art which found its expression -as all art that lives inevitably must- in the decoration of those objects…
Pottery, Iranian · Pottery
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