In weft –faced polychrome compound twill, in natural ivory (darkened), pale red, blue and green, with a repeating design of a roundel laid against a lobed wreath enclosing stylised flower heads, and enclosing a pair of confronting mandarin ducks supported on a split leaf motif. Caption from Sotheby's.
Source: A Silk Samite fragment, probably Sogdian; Central Asia, seventh or eighth century. Sotheby's.
















