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illustrate this influence,³⁹ and traces of inspiration drawn from later Far Eastern designs are recog-
nizable also in the Persian figured velvets of the seventeenth century.⁴⁰

Īrān can be shown to have always readily responded to 'artistic penetration' of this kind China's
from the Far East, whenever political conditions favoured it, as under Mongol domination ; or relations
when prosperity and flourishing maritime trade facilitated imports, as under the Sefevide dynasty. with Īrān
The expansion of China's political power and commerce beyond the Imaos and the Pāmīrs which under
occurred in Han times must have opened the way for similar influences, as may be inferred from Parthians.
the account given by the Han Annals of the relations established by the Imperial Court with
Parthia and the smaller states of Eastern Īrān.⁴¹ But unfortunately only the scantiest remains
of Īrānian arts and crafts of the Parthian period have come down to us, and specimens of Persian
textile work, as practised during the centuries when China's silk export was most active, are
completely wanting. Hence we can at present only conjecture the part played by the latter in
stimulating the development of that style which we see displayed, in stiff maturity, by our late
'Sasanian' textiles.

SECTION VI.—MISCELLANEOUS SEPULCHRAL DEPOSITS AND DESCRIPTIVE
LIST OF ANTIQUES FROM L.C.

After our examination of the textile relics recovered from the grave-pits of L.C., it still remains Objects of
for us to pass in rapid review the miscellaneous objects which had found their way into the sepulchral personal use
deposits there collected. These miscellaneous articles, like the fabrics, correspond very closely deposited in
in character with those usually found in the undisturbed Chinese burials explored by me elsewhere. burials.
Among small objects of personal use deposited with their dead owners, we may note first two well-
preserved bronze mirrors, L.C. 013, 021 (Pl. XXIV), besides a number of fragments, L.C. 017–18,
043–4. L.C. 013 is of special interest as it shows in the low-relief ornamentation of the reverse a band
containing eight different Chinese lapidary characters separated by simple decorative motifs. In
L.C. 021, also showing low-relief ornaments on the back, both this and the flat front appear to have
been silvered. On the fragment L.C. 020 (Pl. XXIV) traces of gilding remain. The original use of
the embossed gold-foil disc L.C. 022 (Pl. XXIV) is uncertain. Other small objects in bronze are the
buckle, L.C. 041 (Pl. XXIII) ; the hook L.C. 042, similar to one found on the Tun-huang Limes,
and the buttons L.C. 014, 023. Among toilet articles we have, besides the mirrors, the well-made
wooden combs, L.C. x. 012–13 (Pl. XXI), with fine teeth.

Remains of personal possessions are probably represented also by the ornamented wooden
lid of a box, L.C. iii. 03 (Pl. XXIX) ; the fragments of a lacquered wooden box, L.C. iii. 07, and those
of other small receptacles in bent cane, L.C. x. 011, 023 (Pl. XXI, XXVIII). The well-preserved
melon-shaped basket of fine grass, L.C. 05 (Pl. XXVI), originally varnished or perhaps lacquered,
may, judging from similar baskets found at L.E.,¹ be safely assumed to be a local product and to have
held food deposited with the dead. The matting of hemp string, L.C. ii. 010, is also probably of
local origin, but resembles in weave the piece T. xiv. 004. b found on the Tun-huang Limes.² The
four-legged wooden food-trays, L.C. x. 015–16 (Pl. XXVII), were, no doubt, meant for food offerings
as usually found by me in intact Chinese tombs ; the numerous knife cuts, however, show that
these trays had previously been utilized by the living. Of other similar food-trays there survive
only the legs L.C. i. 016 ; iv. 06–8 ; x. 05–8 (Pl. XXIX), 024–6, usually beast-shaped. Whether
the jug, L.C. 012 (Pl. XXIX), the goblet, L.C. iv. 09 (Pl. XXIX), and the ladle, L.C. x. 027 (Pl. XXI),

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