Sujet
Detail of Chinese silk found in a Scythian tomb. Artist: Unknown
Légende
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.
Date
30 nov. 1999
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/CM Dixon
Notre référence
HRM19B78_308
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,3Mo (4,1Mo) / 29,6cm x 42,6cm / 3495 x 5034 (300dpi)