textile;
紡織品(Chinese)
- Museum number
- MAS.922
- Description
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There are four pieces of samite with the same pattern, one is now in the British Museum collection and three are in the V&A. These silk fragments show a heart-shaped petal design in red, on a yellow ground. Each heart is decorated with four white dots, and the tip of the hearts alternates in bright blue, pink and dark blue in each row.
The pattern is arranged in staggered rows, with a repeat of 4.6 cm in the warp direction and 3.3 cm in the weft direction. A similar pattern can be seen on the costumes depicted in the mural at Balalitepe in Tocharistan. Roundels with borders consisting of hearts are common in Sogdian samite. Similar patterns are also found in silk dating from the Liao dynasty.
Weave structures:
Inner warp: silk, Z twisted, paired, pale red, 36 ends/cm; Binding warp: silk, Z twisted, single, pale red, 18 ends/cm; Weft: silk, untwisted, yellow for the ground, red, white, pale red/bright blue for the pattern, 34 passes/cm. Weave structure: 1/2Z weft faced compound twill.
同樣的緯錦殘片共有四片，其中3片藏於V&A博物館（LOAN:STEIN.338:1）。黃色地上織出紅色心形圖案，心上點綴有四個白色的圓點，心尖位置則由亮藍、淡粉紅色、深藍三色緯線分區織成，二二錯排，圖案經向循環爲4.6cm，緯線循環爲3.3cm。這類圖案在Toharistan的Balalitepe壁畫上的人物服飾中也有出現，在中亞粟特織錦的實物中，還經常可以看到用心形作團窠裝飾環或是裝飾帶的情況。這樣的圖案，一直到遼代的絲織物上還可以見到。
組織結構：
經線：明經：絲，Z撚，單根排列，淡紅色，18根/cm；夾經：絲，Z撚，雙根排列，淡紅色，36根/cm；緯線：絲，無撚，黃、紅、白、亮藍、淡粉紅色，34組/cm；組織：1/2S向斜紋緯重組織。
- Production date
- 8thC(late)-9thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Length: 12.50 centimetres
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Width: 4.50 centimetres
- 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.922
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Ch.00178 (Stein no.)
