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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.
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AR9173974
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artefact
Artifact
ARTISTIC MOVEMENT
Bird
BIRDS
CHINESE
CM
CM Dixon
color
concept
Death
detail
Dixon
EMBROIDERED
Fabric
Funeral
HERMITAGE MUSEUM
Linen
Mausoleum
Mike Dixon
MUSEUM
mythical beast
mythical creature
MYTHOLOGY
oriental
Pazryk
phoenix
Scythian
Scythian Art
SIBERIA
Silk
Tomb