Textile
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The intricate pattern on this textile features paired griffins, foxes, and birds arranged among vine scrolls and palmette trees. The similarity of its motifs, design, and technique to earlier textile traditions of eastern Iran points to westward migration of artisans in response to Mongol expansion. Several collections preserve fragments of the same textile, perhaps part of a tunic.
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