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Detail of Chinese silk found in a Scythian tomb

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Detail of Chinese silk found in a Scythian tomb

Detail of Chinese silk found in the tomb of a Scythian chief at Pazyryk, Altai, Russia. This is the earliest known Chinese silk surviving in good condition. It is embroidered with phoenixes and partridges in chain-stitch on a silk tussore with a linen weave and approximately fifty threads per centimetre. In the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad

Media ID 14855839

© CM Dixon / Heritage-Images

Embroidered Hermitage Museum Linen Mausoleum Oriental Pazryk Phoenix Scythian Scythian Art Siberia


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