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| Keywords: Chehel-Sotoon palace - ill1-42.jpg as follows In a garden formerly beautiful but semi-barren and untidy now on a pavement of slabs which are no longer on the level with one another stands the Palace of the Twenty Columns called of the forty columns probably because the twenty existing ones are reflected as in a mirror in the long rectangular tank of water extending between this palace and the present dwelling of H E Zil-es-Sultan Governor of Isfahan Distance lends much enchantment to everything in Persia and such is the case even in this palace probably the most tawdrily gorgeous structure in north-west Persia The Palace is divided into two sections the open throne hall and the picture hall behind it The twenty octagonal columns of the open-air hall were once inlaid with Venetian mirrors and still display bases of four grinning lions carved in stone But on getting near them one finds that the bases are chipped off and damaged the glass almost all gone and the foundation of the columns only remains painted dark-red The lower portion of the column for some three feet is ornamented with painted flowers red in blue vases The floor under the colonnade is paved with bricks and there is a raised platform for the throne reached by four stone steps http //www gutenberg org/files/22117/22117-h/images/ill1-42 jpg linked from http //www gutenberg org/files/22117/22117-h/v1 html Creator Arnold Henry Savage Landor or 1901 1902 photographed ; 1902 published PD-old-70 Chehel Sotoun Gardens at Chehel Sotoun 1901 photographs 1901 in Iran Black and white photographs of Iran Black and white photographs of gardens Reflecting pools in Iran t Photographs by Arnold Henry Savage Landor Across Coveted Lands 1903 | ||||
