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Chicago World Exhibition

Chicago World Exhibition

  • Number YYNN

  • Type Workshop

  • Material Wool

  • Style Pictorial

  • Origin Kerman

  • Size 337 x 216

  • Age 1895

Story

This masterpiece is a historical document. It is one of a pair commissioned by Nassereddine Shah Qajar at the time of the World Columbine Exhibition of 1893, marking 400 years of Christopher Columbus discovering America. He was shot before it was completed and was sold to the Indian ambassador, from whose collection it made its way into the palace of the Nizam of Hyderabad, the world's wealthiest man. We sold the twin to this to the Musee Quai Branly Jacques Chirac.

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