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A Child’s Coat with Ducks in Pearl Medallions and a Child's Pants

700s

Iran or Central Asia, Sogdiana

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Medium
silk; weft-faced compound twill, samit
Measurements
Overall: 48 x 82.5 cm (18 7/8 x 32 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1996.2
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This luxurious silk coat for a young prince displays ducks in pearl roundels alternating with cross-shaped lotus blossoms woven in five radiant colors of silk. The ducks are adorned with imperial motifs adopted from the previous Sasanian dynasty in Iran including pearl collars, flying ribbons, and a jeweled necklace in their beaks. This silk was woven in Iran or Sogdiana; however, it is lined with Chinese silk damask and has a pair of pants also made with Chinese silk damask, both decorated in an 8th-century style of the Tang Dynasty.
Squared, woven red silk coat and beige trousers. The coat is patterned with repeated circles outlined with white dots in which two geometric ducks face each other, with red heads and legs, and yellow bodies detailed with dark blue and white against a green background. The trousers are patterned in a slightly lighter beige with round flowers evenly interspersed with leaf and bird holding a twig symbols.

A Child’s Coat with Ducks in Pearl Medallions and a Child's Pants

700s

Iran or Central Asia, Sogdiana

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