Ulrike al-Khamis, Godfrey Evans. « Faint Echoes of Past Splendour – A Group of Brass Plaques from 19th-Century Qajar Iran », in : Robert Hillenbrand, ed., Shahnama: The Visual Language of the Persian Book of Kings. Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004, pp. 129-141.

Abstract

This fascinating article examines 49 brass plaques – currently housed in the Royal Museum of Scotland – which had been manufactured in 19th century Qajar Iran and purchased by one William Greieve in Bombay in the early 1890s. These distinctive pieces eventually made their way to the Grieve household in Berwick before being donated to the Royal Museum of Scotland in 1946. Al-Khamis and Evans provide a methodological and inspiring analysis of these pieces, which originally hailed from a wealthy...