Peacock Throne

The Peacock Throne (Persian تخت طاووس - Takht -e Tavus ) was a decorated with gold leaf and 26,733 precious stones throne. Nadir Shah, the founder of Afschariden dynasty is said to have captured the Peacock Throne from 1739 carried out a campaign against the Mughal dynasty in India and brought to Persia. This throne is now considered lost.

From Fath Ali Shah Qajar ruler one, a new throne was commissioned in Isfahan, said in reference to his favorite wife, the " Tavus " ( "Peacock " ), was again called Peacock Throne. There is evidence that fragments of the original were used for this second Peacock Throne. Backed this is not. This specimen belongs to the collection of the National Museum in Tehran gem, located in the center of Tehran in the basement of the National Bank.

( Pers: Takht -e Nader / Coronation chair / throne ) At the time of Qajar and Pahlavi later the coronation of the new Shah of Persia on the so-called " Nader throne " was performed. Soraya Esfandiary Bachtiyārī was described by the tabloids regularly as the " German on the Peacock Throne " because her mother was the German Carl Eva (wife of the former Iranian ambassador to Germany, Khalil Esfandiary Bakhtiary ). However, this is incorrect, since, as mentioned, the coronation did not take place on the ( lost) Peacock Throne and the Pahlavi shahs used a simple, Achaemenid models modeled throne.