Mae Festa 50 Years of Collecting Textiles - Peter Pap Oriental Rugs

CHINA
Brocade (fragment)
Late 13 th /Early 14 th Century
North China, Mongol period
Tabby woven silk with red selvedge
brocaded with flat gilded leather.
33 x 28 cm 13 x 11 in
The five-sided images of a hare under a flowering
plant are staggered in two rows. The hunting of
hares was a well established activity of the Mongols.
The weaving is influenced by an earlier eastern
Persian tradition.
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