ID 1404634
Lot 12 | A LARGE SOGDIAN SILK SAMITE FRAGMENT
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 50 000
CENTRAL ASIA, 7TH OR 8TH CENTURY
Woven in red, black, blue and cream silk with one large roundel containing confronted pheasants on a stylised vegetal ground, surrounded by four smaller roundels containing confronted birds, a fragmentary large roundel on the right side, mounted
29 7/8 x 41in. (76 x 104cm.)
Provenance
Australian collection by 1998, by repute
With Christian Deydier, Paris, 2011
French private collection since 2019
Literature
Gilles Béguin, Soies d'Asie Centrale, Enigmes et Splendeurs, Paris, 2020
Exhibited
Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie, Cluny, Sur la route de la soie: Étoffes, luxe & pouvoir, 20 June - 2 October 2022
| Medium: | Silk, Textile |
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| Place of origin: | Asia, Uzbekistan |
| Auction house category: | Handbags, Textiles & Costume, Arms & Armor |
| Medium: | Silk, Textile |
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| Place of origin: | Asia, Uzbekistan |
| Auction house category: | Handbags, Textiles & Costume, Arms & Armor |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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