Publication Date
800
Publication Place
Iran (made) Central Asia (made) -
Subject
Lions
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Length: 48cm, Width: 27.5cm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
1746-1888
Record ID
1746-1888
Library Location
Middle East Section
Date
800
Notes
Compound silk twill, the colours faded, the pattern dominated by roundels with pairs of confronted lions, Iran or western Central Asia, 800-1000.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Pattern woven polychrome silk Silk (Textile) Patterned Weave
Fiziksel açıklama
Most of the pattern survives. It is dominated by a roundel with a complex border that contains a pair of lions, standing (statant) and confronted, and other motifs. Addorsed pairs of running quadrupeds are set above and below the roundels, which can also be analyzed as groups of four quadrupeds in two rows of two between the roundels. One pair, with three spots on a dark ground, has curled tails and looks to the front. The other pair, pale in colour and with bushy tails, has the head turned back. We know from other examples that the fragments of pattern along the vertical sides of the textile once formed a stylized, tree-like arrangement of plant-based motifs, which were level with the groups of four quadrupeds (see V&A: 763-1893). Samite: 1/2 twill, 1 binding warp, 3 main warps, 3 pattern wefts; warp silk undyed and weft silk tan, blue and blue-green.
Üslup
Post-Sasanian Islamic
