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Fragment

before 1948
Silk: lampas weave
Overall: 15.2 x 33.6 cm (6 x 13 1/4 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1948.501
Location: not on view
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On a blue ground is a pattern in white (now faded to cream) and red (now beige) of paired confronted birds repeated in staggered horizontal rows against scrolling foliation.
Fragment

Fragment

before 1948

Iran, Rayy, late 12th or early 13th century

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