TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

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A FRAGMENT OF SILK LAMPAS
Tang Dynasty (618-907)
The golden yellow ground woven with a roundel depicting a goat, naturalistically drawn, facing right and standing amidst blue cloud scrolls, encircled by a border of pearl motifs with small rectangles at the cardinal points, fragmentary, joined, damages, mounted and framed; and another fragment woven with sections of three roundels, the largest with the front quarters of a goat, facing left, the ground between with quatrefoil floral motifs, fragmentary, damages, with glass sandwich frame
6in. (15.4cm.) x 6in. (15.4cm.) and 8¾ in. (22.3cm.) x 9¼ in. (23.7cm) (2)

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Lot Essay

Compare to the roundels illustrated in Five Thousand Years of Chinese Art, Chinese Textiles, Part II, Sui and Tang Dynasties, p.172, pl.12 and p.2, pl.1 for roundels with square cardinal bosses. See also Zhi Xiu, Wu Ming, Taipei, p.157, pl.70

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