A 7th- or 8th-century AD silk jacket decorated in Sasanian style, probably made in Uzbekistan & lined with Tang Dynasty silk damask from China: http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1996.2.1 pic.twitter.com/aSgbME1YV8
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White silk trousers from the same outfit as the jacket; made from Chinese silk probably in the 8thC and ornamented with flowers & birds: http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1996.2.2 pic.twitter.com/3sfISCTTIp
A small pair of boots made from the same 7th-/8th-century Sogdian silk, perhaps from the same costume: http://www.silkroad-museum.jp/silkroad-collection …pic.twitter.com/pEqsGt0DtE
A 7th-century AD Tibetan silk riding coat of Sasanian or Sogdian origin: http://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp206_sasanian_persia.pdf …pic.twitter.com/5GDv0V5TrW
A Sogdian 9th-/10th-century wool coat with birds and gazelles in roundel, lined with silk: https://awalimofstormhold.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/another-sogdiana-coat/ …pic.twitter.com/scBif5SVrT
Two fragments of a 9th-/10th-century silk-embroidered garment from the burnt royal site at Llan-gors, Wales, which copies designs from Central Asian figured silks; one fragment has the charred pattern outlined in white & the other is digitally recoloured: https://museum.wales/articles/2007-05-03/The-Llan-gors-textile-an-early-medieval-masterpiece/ …pic.twitter.com/lOCKg0BqcU
A 9th-century AD silk made in Central Asia showing pairs of horsemen hunting ibexes — interestingly, this Sogdian silk's design derives from Byzantine models & the piece was preserved in the Church of Saint-Omer, France: http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1974.98 pic.twitter.com/hDNRCDnFJj
I wonder how it survived for so long—a quick search didn’t turn up the aquisition info, but just thinking about where this has been for the past 1300 years or so is kind of mind blowing.
Some discussion here, but nothing on provenance other than 'preserved in Tibet', alas... :(https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9GGR3V4zJzwC&pg=PA37&lpg=PA37#v=onepage&q&f=false …
Thanks! But also: ahhhh! :)
No worries :) Briefly discussed in Heleanor Feltham's 'Lions, Silks and Silver: The Influence of Sasanian Persia' too, fwiw, along with a lovely Tibetan riding coat: http://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp206_sasanian_persia.pdf …
Ooh, reading it now, thank you. How great that these are freely online. I also appreciate the front matter: “When the editor goes on an expedition...all operations...may temporarily cease for up to three months at a time.”
I know! I hadn't seen the interior before, totally blown away when I realised they had pictures of it...! :)
It is absolutely remarkable.
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