New book on Persian Art

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K A R A N G P U B L I S H I N G

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Presenting "Persian Art" by S. Maslenitsyna, a book about
Persian work found in the Museum of Oriental Art, Russia:

The Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow has fine collections of Persian art
objects, one of the largest in the Soviet Union. In their richness and diversity
they of the 12th - 14th centuries, wich boasts several masterpieces; ancient
and medieval pottery and Laristan bronze; manuscripts and miniatures of the
15th - 17th centuries, as well as easel painting of the 18th - 19th centuries.
The Museum's Persian collection began to be amassed immediately after the
establishment of the Museum in 1918. Among the very first acquisitions of
the Soviet state were over a hundred priceless works of medieval Persian art
collected by K. Nekrasov an amateur collector who had spent many years in
Iran. Nekrasov possessed remarkable erudition: superb specimens of pottery
dated in the 12th - 14th centuries, painted in lustre and enamel colours,
faience painted in black under turquoise - blue glaze, old Persian
manuscripts and miniatures, and metal objects are the pride of the Museum's
Persian collections.

Many valuable specimens were handed over to the Museum of Oriental Art
by other museume (those in Yuryev - Polsky, Yalta, Ivanovo - Voznesensk,
Ostafyevo near Moscow and Moscow's Proletarian Museum). About 100
articles - carpets, Papiermāché writing cases, manuscript covers, mirror
cases, textile fragments and miniature paintings - were received from the
former Stroganov Art School. In 1919 the History Museum contributed a
fabulous collection of Oriental antiques, amassed by the famous Russian
collector P. Schchukin. In 1919 - 24 there were further contributions from
museum funds in Moscow and Leningrad. A valuable addition was a large
collection of Persian art donated in 1928 by Tardov, formerly Soviet Consul
General in Isfahan: it included 13th and 14th century ceramic ware, tiles of
the Safavid period, artistic glassware of the 18th and 19th centuries,
miniatures, textiles and 19th century oil paintings.

Many specimens of Persian art were found or bought in the course of the
scientific mission to the Soviet Eastern Republics, organized by the
Museum. Thus, the 1927 Daghestan mission yielded a number of unique
speciments of medieval Persian metalware.

In the suvsequent years the Persian collections were augmented largely with
the help of the State Commission of Experts. Today the Persian collections
of the Museum of Oriental Art number more than 1500 items. The bulk are
works of medieval art (12th - 18th centuries); relics of the early (pre -
Achaemenian) period and works created in the 19th and 20th centuries
enable us to form and idea of the continuous development of Persian art.

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