RUSSIAN TREASURES
DAZZLING GEMS IN LONDON. Russia sprang a last-minute surprise on the International Exhibition of Persian Art at the' Royal Academy in London. = She sent, unexpectedly, some of her greatest treasures —objects of Sassanian gold, the only known pieces in the world. They were taken secretly to London by Professor Joseph Orbell, director of the Department of Oriental Art at the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. The most important exhibit was a large solid gold wine jug of magnificent form and proportions, and two of a famous set of gold goblets with a delightful device of a little bell-like arrangement which ririgs! when the oup is shaken if it is empty, but when full it makes no sound. It was made about the year 300. Professor Orbell also brought some of the most famous velvets ever woven, and a mass of gold and jewelled implements, gold and jewelled vessels, and ornaments which were given by Shah Abbas I. to one of the Russian Czars, probably Peter the Great. These included a bracelet that is a mass of rubies and qmeralds of the finest quality. In the whole of the jeweller’s art there is hardly a more sumptuous bracelet than this. A sword with a solid gold, sheath, given by Fath Ali Shad to the Czar Nicholas 1., is encrusted with more than 400 emeralds.
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Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3262, 19 February 1931, Page 7
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