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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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.”
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