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Authors

• Arezoo Khanpour Khanpour ¹
• Mohammad Taghi Ashouri ²

¹ Instructor of Islamic Arts University/ Tabriz

² Assistant Professor of Art Faculty/Tehran

Abstract

Employing a descriptive research method, the present paper aims atinvestigatingthe amounts and types of glass-wear imports during the Qajar era. This study shows that the highest amount of import of the glass-wears was from Russia. Convenient connecting routs and fast and easy transportation facilitated this matter significantly. Such imports from Russia included consumableand usable glass-wear products. Contrariwise, imports from European countries via OttomanEmpire were mainly of decorative nature and were used by the wealthy class of the society, duringQajar era. Although the noticeable growth in glass-wear consumptioninstigatedsome efforts for producing these products locally; however,the majority of the glass artworks in the Iranian museumsbelong to the European countries and Russia, which were all imported to the countryduring Qajar era.

Keywords

• Glass
• Glass-wear import
• Qajar period
• Glass production