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The Persian Art Galleries
Limited 
128 New Bond Street.
London, 25th, August 1913
w.
Telegraphic Address,
Akemenid, London,
Telephone Mayfair 501.

-5-

I am leaving almost immediately for Persia for two months absence, but I shall be kept informed.

In my cable I alluded to Mr. Preeces' small mihrab at present exhibited at Vincent Robinsons, as I thought this would be the briefest way to explain what the object of the cable was, otherwise a comparison between the two would have been an absurdity, not only on account of the fact that the piece exhibited at Vincent Robinsons would sink in all respects into insignificance in importance by such a comparison, but also owing to the infinitely higher level of feeling breathed by the artist of Veramin Mihrab, and means so freely breathed by the artist of Veramin Mihrab, and means so freely, surely, and successfully employed in expressing it, places this monument on the incontestably highest altitude so as to render the drawing of a parallel impossible.

I have the honor to be,
Yours obediently.

[[H. Keoolman?]]

P.S. I have enclosed in the packet of photographs one that represents a plateau of a 'coup' - decoration, a King on horseback carrying a hunting tiger - material, or terracotta, bricklike reddish thick paste, and a crackled glaze over, cafe brown coloring with salmon and ivory white reserves - decoration carried out by means of engraving. The paste and glaze of this piece is quite different to any of the pieces that the excavations of Rhages, Saltanabad and Hamadan, or any other sites of early Mohammedan culture yielded. The piece is found at Zendjan as an isolated specimen. That the style of decoration is in keeping with the prevailing note seen in the majority of silver and bronze vessels of Sassanian art there can be no doubt. I made an exhaustive study of those vessels at the Imperial Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg, and, while writing these lines, have before me the important work on Oriental Silver and Gold vessels published by the Archeological Association at