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... THRONES NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC GAZE. MADE WITH GOLD SHEETING AND ENCRUSTED WITH THOUSANDS OF PEARLS ; THE THRONE OF THE PERSIAN SHAH ISMAIL, CAPTURED BY SULTAN SELIM OF TURKEY AT ISPAHAN—INDIAN WORK OF THE EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURY. v' THE THRONE OF SHAH ...
... and the East. Among these are the four thrones here illustrated, one them the enamelled and pearl-encrusted throne of the Persian Shah Ismail, which was taken by the Turks, with other booty, after the battle of Tchaldiran. Recalling a visit to the Turkish ...
... Yet as strange thing has come to pass. In his Highland home the descendant of “the Great Montrose has entertained the Persian Shah. G. E.-T. Barry Dock, near Cardiff, was opened on July 18 Mrs. Lewis Davies, one of the owners of Ferndale Colliery. The ...
... word chess is derived from the Oriental word signifying a square ; and hold with Professor Forbes that it comes from the Persian Shah” (King), which we find in ns© to this day among the Arabs and Persians in the same sense as our word “check.’ “In fact ...