textile;
紡織品(Chinese)
- Museum number
- MAS.917.b
- Description
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These three fragments of samite are from one piece of weft-faced compound twill, with a pattern of pearl roundels, 8.2 cm high and 6.5 cm wide, within which are three branched palmettes. The roundels are arranged in staggered rows interspersed with flowers and scrolled clouds: the pattern is in white and light blue; the ground is in yellow.
Stein found a piece of samite with a similar design, with linked pearls at Astana, but it is usually rare to find branched palmettes (or any tree-like designs) in Sogdian samite.
Weave structures:
Inner warp: silk, Z twisted, paired, yellow, 16 ends/cm; Binding warp: silk, Z twisted, single, yellow, 16 ends/cm; Weft: silk, untwisted, yellow for the ground, white and light blue for the pattern, 41 passes/cm. Weave structure: 1/2S weft faced compound twill.
斜紋緯錦殘片。三片出自同一織物,以黃色緯線作地,其上以淺藍、白兩色緯線顯花。根據殘留的織物保可拼出一高約爲8.2cm,寬約爲6.5cm的聯珠形團窠紋樣,窠內是一枝三叉的花樹圖案。這種花樹紋樣在中亞粟特織錦中並不多見,但與斯坦因在吐魯番阿斯塔發那挖到的一件團窠聯珠花樹紋錦多少有些相似(Ast.i.1.01)。團窠採用二二錯排的方式排列,團窠之間則裝飾以卷雲式的花卉。
組織結構:
經線:明經:絲,Z撚,單根排列,黃色,16根/cm;夾經:絲,Z撚,雙根排列,黃色,16根/cm;緯線:絲,無撚,黃、淺藍、白色,41副/cm;組織:1/2S向斜紋緯重組織。
- Production date
- 8thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 7 centimetres
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Width: 3.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- This fragment belongs to the same textile of MAS.917.a and c. When Stein recovered these three fragments, they were stitched together to form a strip from the back of a Buddhist devotional handbook printed in AD 949.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1917
- Acquisition notes
- The 1917-11-28 group (with MAS numbering) refers to objects from Stein's Second Central Asian Expedition, 1906-08. As the expedition was financed 3/ 5 by the Government of India and 2/5 by the British Museum, it was agreed that the finds from the expedition should be allocated in these proportions. All the finds were shipped to London for sorting, research and publication, and subsequent distribution. The distribution of the finds between London and India was determined by specialists, appointed by the Government of India (through the India Office, London) and the British Museum, who drew up lists of the objects for approval by both sides. The specialists included: Raphael Petrucci, under supervision of Dr E Denison Ross (nominated by India Office) and Laurence Binyon (British Museum) on paintings; Dr F W Thomas, Dr E Denison Ross (both nominated by India Office) and Dr L D Barnett (British Museum) on manuscripts and written documents; Dr E Denison Ross (nominated by India Office) and Laurence Binyon (British Museum) on archaeological/other finds. Although the lists were drawn up and approved in 1915, the Government of India asked the British Museum to look after the entire collection during the First World War, and those allocated to India were eventually shipped in 1919.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- MAS.917.b
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Ch.0026 (Stein no.)