A RARE SILK FRAGMENT WITH HUNTERS AND ANIMALS
A RARE SILK FRAGMENT WITH HUNTERS AND ANIMALS

6TH CENTURY A.D.

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A RARE SILK FRAGMENT WITH HUNTERS AND ANIMALS
6TH CENTURY A.D.
The repeat design, pale buff on dark ground on one side, dark buff on pale ground on the other side, comprising remains of four rows of roundels containing a hunter with cape flying armed with circular shield and spear, alternating with leopard and lion roundels, with four branched trefoil leaves between, framed
Textile 5¾ x 5½ in. (14.6 x 14 cm.) max.

拍品專文

Cf. J. Trilling, The Roman Heritage: textiles from Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean 300 to 600 AD, The Textile Museum, Washington D.C., 1982, pp. 100-101, nos. 112-115 for silk fragments.