- 353
Five fragmentary silk samite textile fragments, probably Sogdian,
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- Five fragmentary silk samite textile fragments
- smallest: approximately 21 by 21cm., 9in. by 9in.; largest: approximately 44 by 55cm., 1ft. 6in. by 1ft. 10in. (mountings)
variously including confronting birds, confronting gryphons in roundels, lions within pearl roundels and the head of a beast, each individually mounted on linen backing and stretchers
Catalogue Note
Please see Professor Zhao Feng, Silk Roundels from the Sui to the Tang, Hali, Issue 92, 1997, pp.80-85.