Memento of a past era: Decorative fruit plate with a portrait of Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar (King of Iran from 17 September 1848 to 1 May 1896 ) and traditional tea glass and saucer

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Years ago, we were given six of these lovely plates as a gift. we bought the traditional tea glass and saucer in the Tehran Bazaar.

PS Thanks to my Flickr friend Bijan1351 for alerting me to the fact that I had incorrectly identified the portrait in the center of the plate. See his stream here www.flickr.com/photos/bijantaravels/

These are some of the historical facts re Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar:

Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar [1] (16 July 1831 – 1 May 1896) (Persian: ناصرالدین شاه قاجار‎ Nāṣiru d-Dīn Shāh Qājār) was the King of Iran from 17 September 1848 to 1 May 1896 when he was assassinated. He was the son of Mohammad Shah Qajar and Malek Jahan Khanom, Mahd-e Olia and the third longest reigning monarch king in Iranian history after Shapur II of the Sassanid Dynasty and Tahmasp I of the Safavid Dynasty. He had sovereign power for close to 50 years and was also the first Persian monarch to ever write and publish his diaries.
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He was in Tabriz when he heard of his father's death in 1848, and he ascended to the Peacock Throne with the help of Amir Kabir.

Naser al-Din had early reformist tendencies, but was dictatorial in his style of government. [...].

Naser al-Din was effective in introducing several different western influences to Iran. He curbed the secular power of the clergy, introduced telegraph and postal services, built roads, opened the first school offering education along Western lines, and launched Iran's first newspaper. He was the first Iranian to be photographed and was a patron of photography who had himself photographed hundreds of times. His final prime minister was Ali Asghar Khan, who after the shah's assassination aided in securing the transfer of the throne to Mozaffar al-Din.

The Shah, on his European tour, in the Royal Albert Hall, London. Seated between the Princess of Wales and her sister, the Tsesarevna of RussiaIn the later years of his rule, however, he steadfastly refused to deal with the growing pressures for reforms. He also granted a series of concessionary rights to foreigners in return for large payments that went into his own pockets. In 1872 popular pressure forced him to withdraw one concession involving permission to construct such complexes as railways and irrigation works throughout Iran. In 1890 he made an even greater error in granting a 50-year concession on the purchase, sale, and processing of all tobacco in the country, which led to a national boycott of tobacco and the withdrawal of the concession. This last incident is considered by many authorities to be the origin of modern Iranian nationalism.

Naser al-Din was assassinated by Mirza Reza Kermani, a follower of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, when he was visiting and praying in the shrine of Shah-Abdol-Azim. [...]. He was buried in the Shah-Abdol-Azim Cemetery, in Rayy near Tehran, where he was assassinated. His one-piece marble tombstone, bearing his full effigy, is now kept in the Golestan Palace Museum in Tehran and is renowned as a masterpiece of Qajar-era sculpture.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naser_al-Din_Shah_Qajar

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Taken on: October 19, 2012

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