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Royall Tyler to Mildred Barnes Bliss and Robert Woods Bliss, May 10, 1940

RadiogramThis radiogram is preserved in the Byzantine Collection, Royall Tyler correspondence file.

1940 MAY 10

Geneve

Milrob

Washington

EumosGeorge Eumorfopoulos. Persian objects auction June 5 catalogueThe Eumorfopoulos Collections: Catalogue of the Collection of Persian Ceramics & Islamic Glass, Egyptian, Greek and Roman Antiquities, Choice Medieval & Renaissance Works of Art, Etc. (London: Kitchen & Barratt, 1940). just received. Number 59 is Popse [sic] surveyLuster plate with the scene of Khosrow seeing Shirin at her bath from the Persian tragic romance by the poet Nizami Ganjavi (1141–1209). Arthur Upham Pope, ed., A Survey of Persian Art, From Prehistoric Times to the Present (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1938), 2:1585 and 5:pl. 708. plate 708. Number 72 Sanfrancisco 1937 show catalogue 191.Bronze canteen, Syrian, thirteenth century, from the George Eumorfopoulos collection. Mehmet Aga-Oglu, Exhibition of Islamic Art, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, February 24 to March 22 [1937] (San Francisco: Printed by Carlisle, 1937), 56, no. 191, ill. Also recommend number 53 being Popse [sic] 776Bowl, Sultanabad, fourteenth century. See Arthur Upham Pope, ed., A Survey of Persian Art, From Prehistoric Times to the Present (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1938), 2:1636 and 5:pl. 776. and 181 Volbach and DutheritGeorges Duthuit. Tyler mistakes the author, who is Georges Salles. [sic] Art ByzantinPossibly Saints Peter and Paul, Early Christian, fourth century, bronze. Wolfgang Volbach and GeorgesSalles, Art byzantin: Cent planches reproduisant un grand nombre de pièces choisies parmi les plus représentatives des diverses (Paris: A. Lévy, 1933), 62, pl. 55D. 55D. Unable go London. Suggest you communicate Sotheby hard gues [sic]. Urge you not miss above numbers. Still hoping sail June First. Tyler

 
Associated People: George Eumorfopoulos