Sujet
Silk Decorative Tunic Band with a Hunter, 700s. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Silk Decorative Tunic Band with a Hunter, 700s. This prestigious silk band displays a stylized palmette leaf above a hunter who holds a sword and a shield and pursues a lion (see photo) and a rabbit. Another fragment with Arabic script indicates Islamic manufacture. Photo of: Detail of the Lion's Head, Silk Decorative Band with a Hunter (1939.505) Green and ivory silk horizontal wefts dominate, interlaced by vertical warps in a diagonal twill weave. A second inner warp does not come to the surface. Such compound structures were woven on large looms with automatic pattern repetition, called drawlooms.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19G05_061
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
17,6Mo (1,9Mo) / 11,9cm x 37,0cm / 1411 x 4366 (300dpi)