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極奥アジア : vol.2

fragments. The preparation of these reproductions must necessarily wait until these often very
delicate and friable relics of ancient textile art have received the careful technical treatment by
expert hands in London of which many are much in need. Moreover Mr. Andrews, on whose
detailed and experienced examination of all the textile materials my own observations are necessarily
based, has for similar reasons not yet been able to complete [as he has done since] the descriptions
of them for the List below. Nevertheless I hope that the brief notes here recorded will suffice
to bring out the essential points of archaeological interest.

Boar's
head in
' Sasanian '
medallion.

Among the designs of purely ' Sasanian ' style the most striking is that of the polychrome
figured silk, fortunately well preserved, which is used for the face-cover Ast. i. 5. 03 (Pl. LXXVI).
It shows a finely designed boar's head, highly stylized, within a circular border of pearls, typical
of ' Sasanian ' medallions, and is a very powerful piece of work. The angular treatment of the head
with stepped outlines connects this fabric very closely with a group of ' Sasanian ' fabrics which
Professor von Falke has ascribed to the silk industry of Eastern Irān and which has some charac-
teristic representatives also among the Ch'ien-fo-tung silks.¹⁸ The popularity of this particular
motif is attested by its recurring, in similar treatment but on a smaller scale, in the polychrome
figured silks used for face-covers of two other bodies, Ast. i. 6. 01 and ix. 2. 017, the burial of which
is datable about A. D. 632 and in A. D. 689, respectively. Still more interesting is it to find the
design of a boar's head, nearly identical in treatment and setting, used in the decorative painting
of the ceiling of a Toyuk cave, reproduced by Professor Grünwedel and since completely destroyed.¹⁹
The use made of designs from ' Sasanian ' textiles for mural decoration is illustrated also by the
painted frieze of a cave at the ' Ming-oi ' of Kizil, drawn and described by Professor Grünwedel and
now in Berlin, which shows confronting ducks within the typical pearl medallions.²⁰ With the
' boar's head ' silks must be grouped also two other figured silks in Astāna face-covers, v. 1. 01 ;
vii. 1. 01 (Pl. LXXVII), which show the same ' stepped ' treatment of animal forms within
' Sasanian ' medallions but are too poorly preserved to permit of an accurate determination of
their central motifs.

' Sasanian
borders
enclosing
plant
motifs.

In two more silks from face-covers, i. 3. b. 01 and ix. 2. 01 (Pl. LXXIX), we find ' Sasanian '
pearl borders enclosing motifs treated in a similar though less pronounced angular fashion. In
i. 3. b. 01 it is a stylized grape vine, in ix. 2. 01 a very angular flower. Both designs show at the
cardinal points of the medallion borders rectangular spots which seem to connect them with Chinese
imitations of ' Sasanian ' fabrics found both at Nara and Ch'ien-fo-tung.²¹ With these two fabrics
may be grouped also the figured silk piece from a face-cover, i. 1. 01 (Pl. LXXX), in which the
design shows a conventional tree with leaves and flowers on either side within a circle of discs,
though the central motif is of less angular treatment than in the previously noted designs. The
' Sasanian ' medallion border is the same as in the last two examples. Similarly we find here a label
ornamented with small circles serving as a base for the central motif, just as it is seen in i. 3. b. 01
and in the Persian ' duck stuff ' of the Vatican and the painted frieze of the Kizil ' Ming-oi '.²²

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