page_title: Naser al-Din Shah's slide
section_title: Association with Fath-Ali Shah Qajar
hierarchical_section_title: Naser al-Din Shah's slide / Association with Fath-Ali Shah Qajar
caption_attribution_description: English: Fat‘ḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār, in 1798Français&#160;: Fath'ali Shah Qajar. l'huile sur toile. Iran XIXè siécle.
context_page_description: Naser al-Din Shah's slide was a slide in the subterranean baths of the Negaristan Palace in Teheran. The Encyclopedia Iranica notes that Western visitors commented on "the royal palace of Negārestān and salacious reports about its slide used for erotic purposes".
context_section_description: John H. Waller, commenting on Qajar Dynasty art, mentions, without any credible source, that such a slide was used by Fath-Ali Shah Qajar and his harem:
  Beyond range of the artists' canvases were even jollier scenes; Fath Ali Shah, it was said, happily whiled away the hours as, one by one, naked harem beauties swooped down a slide, especially made for the sport, into the arms of their lord and master before being playfully dunked in a pool.
  The slide was described by Edward Granville Brown in his account of Negaristan Palace in Teheran:
  a beautiful marble bath [is] furnished with a long smooth glissoire, called by the Persians sursurak ("the slide"), which descends from above to the very edge of the bath. Down this slope the numerous ladies of Fath-'Ali Shah's harem used to slide into the arms of their lord, who was waiting below to receive them.
  The story circulated that the Shah lay on his back awaiting each of his many concubines. Ervand Abrahamian writes that according to legend, "Fath'ali did so every day naked so that his wives would slide down naked over him."
caption: Fath-Ali Shah, creator of the marble slide, who is supposed to have felt the need to use it every day
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