Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of the Rare and Beautiful Ancient Faiences, Glass and Other Objects Belonging to Messieurs Tabbagh Freres, of Paris and New York
A distinguished English writer on Art has said the Persians of the Tenth to the Seventeenth Centuries were perfect masters of all the decorative arts to a degree possessed, probably, by no other race or age. A writer of no less dis tinction has further declared that the Saracens contrived to introduce some ele ment of distinctive originality into almost every branch of artistic work.
A Collection mainly composed of examples of the Arts of these two races must, therefore, be of especial interest to a community which has never yet failed to appreciate all that is beautiful and noteworthy in decorative art. Doubtless these Fa'iences, to many of which the finger of Time has added their last touch of radiance; these Glasses, enamelled, with jewel-like efi'ect, in many colors; these Miniatures, painted with so loving a patience, and these Manuscripts, in which mere calligraphy has been elevated to a fine art, will, to some of us, appeal with almost the shock of a revelation.
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