The relic at centre of a 1920s High Society love triangle: How ruin from the ancient palace of Persepolis was gifted to Virginia Woolf by her lover Vita Sackville-West...and what became of it when their relationship soured over her many affairs

The celebrated writer and gardener gathered the fragments when visiting the ruins of the ancient palace of Persepolis in what is now Iran in 1927.

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