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JADE iii. Jade Carving, 4th century B.C.E to 15th century C.E.
The eleven ancient and medieval jades illustrated in the plates are representatives of a very large and expanding corpus of ancient and medieval Iranian jades.
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CHAMPION, JOSEPH
(1750-ca. 1813), English poet and translator. His three books devoted to Persian literature were all first published in India. The earliest contains English odes in imitation of the poems of Ḥāfeẓ, mostly on the theme of wine and drinking.