Textile with Boar's Head Roundels
Unknown Artist
7th century
Medium
Silk split-stitch embroidery on plain-weave silk
Dimensions
Warp 22 1/16 in. (56 cm); weft (selvedge to selvedge) 18 7/8 in. (48 cm)
Classification
Textiles-Embroidered
Culture
Iran, Afghanistan or China (Xinjiang Autonomous Region)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Sir Joseph Hotung Gift, 2004
Accession Number
2004.260
Tags
PeacocksBoars