Arts of the Islamic World, including Fine Carpets and Textiles

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Lot 360
  • 360

A silk samite fragment, probably Sogdian,

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • A silk samite fragment
  • approximately 31cm by 25cm., 1ft. 2in. by 10in., irregularly shaped
in weft-faced polychrome compound twill, in natural ivory (darkened) and light walnut, with a repeating design of a pearl roundel enclosing a stag, the minor motifs of a stylised vase issuing fruiting grape vines centred by a palmette 

Catalogue Note

Please see Professor Zhao Feng's article Silk Roundels from the Sui to the Tang, Hali, Issue 92, 1997, pp.80-85, Fig. 5, p.82,  for an illustration of a fragment with an almost identical stag motif, from the Museum of Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, Urumqi. For further discussion of this group of silks, please see Hali, ibid.