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Silk embroidery panel with flowers and ducks found in Dunhuang caves, China, 9th-10th century. The design of scrolling foliage with flowers and birds was embroidered onto floral-figured silk, backed with plain woven cream silk. Silk thread was used for the long satin stitches of the floral motifs. Subtle colour variation has been worked into the petals and leaves to suggest twists and turns. These were outlined in silver thread which has now turned black through oxidization. Only the beak, eye and upper wing of each duck was embroidered, while the rest of the bird was formed by laying thick golden thread and couching it with small stitches. At one end, the embroidery has worn away to reveal the original ink outline of the design.This is a particularly fine example of the floral motifs that were popular during the Tang dynasty.
OA, MAS 857

Location British Museum/London/Great Britain

Unique Identifier ART201385

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 1600px × 1318px

Photo Credit Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY

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