Textile with Horned Animals in a Pearl Roundel, 7th–9th century, China (Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Central Asia), Woven silk, a: 10 x 15 1/2 in. (25.4 x 39.4 cm), Textiles-Woven, This piece, showing two confronted animals, likely bulls, is a composite of roundels from different parts of the same length of cloth. This category of textile moved with Sogdian merchants along overland trade routes that linked Central Asia with territories farther west
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Textile, Horned Animals, Pearl Roundel, 7th–9th century, China, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Central Asia, Woven silk, 10 x 15 1/2, 25.4 39.4 cm, Textiles-Woven, piece, showing two, confronted, animals, bulls, composite, roundels, different parts, length, cloth, category, textile moved, Sogdian merchants, overland trade, routes, linked Central, Asia, territories farther, west
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