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ing wide and narrow arches, while above and below stems connected with the arches carry tiers of
highly stylized leaves, flowers and fruits. The arcading here used as a kind of framework clearly
links this pattern with the designs in a number of silk fragments recovered from the Han Limes
and Lou-lan and also in an early piece from the hoard of the 'Thousand Buddhas'.²⁵ Finally
we have another purely Chinese design in the silk tapestry of the shoe vi. 4. 01 (Pl. XCIII). It
shows bands with a succession of geese placed in panels the colours of which counterchange with
those of the birds. Chinese characters woven into bands at the toe indicate the Chinese origin
of the textile and its design.

Among the mass of other designs which belong to the great class above indicated we may con- Chinese
veniently distinguish two main types, though the dividing line between individual specimens is designs of
often difficult to draw. One type may be recognized as comprising floral motifs, sometimes com- floral or
bined with animal figures, mostly birds. To the other type belong purely geometric designs, made geometric
up in their simplest forms of variations of the lozenge diaper, chevrons, 'repeating spots', and the type.
like. We had occasion similarly to distinguish these two types in the Ch'ien-fo-tung textiles.
But it deserves to be noted that the strong tendency towards naturalistic treatment observed in
most of the floral designs from Ch'ien-fo-tung is absent in the designs of almost all the Astāna
fabrics, whatever their method of decoration. Is it possible to recognize in this a kind of negative
evidence that the marked trend towards naturalistic freedom characteristic of Chinese art of the
T'ang and later periods had not yet fully set in during the seventh century?

It is natural that the designs seen in the embroidery work, usually executed on silk gauzes, Floral
should be of the floral type, considering the greater freedom from technical limitations enjoyed designs in
by the embroiderer's needle. But the floral motifs found in vi. 01 ; i. 06, 09 (Pl. XLV), are very embroidery.
conventionalized, and even in the bewildering medley of flowers, leaves, stars, &c., that fills the
small embroidered panels of vi. 3. 07 (Pl. LXXVIII), the individual shapes are very stylized. Of
course, all these embroideries may be local Turfān work and not executed by Chinese hands.

Among the polychrome figured silks the floral designs most frequent show rows of rosettes, Polychrome
more or less stylized, sometimes combined with leaves or coloured borders, and bearing in general figured silks
a strong resemblance to pieces found among the Ch'ien-fo-tung textiles.³⁶ In others the rosettes are with floral
developed into 'spots' of elaborate patterns closely akin to those found in silks of undoubtedly or geometric
Chinese origin from Nara and Ch'ien-fo-tung.³⁷ Simple 'geometric' patterns with lozenges and patterns.
rectangles (i. 5. a. 01. a, b, 02 ; ix. 2. 02 ; x. 1. 01 ; Pl. LXXVIII, LXXXIII, LXXXIV) are less
frequent in polychrome stuffs than in damasks. With such patterns may be mentioned also
a small series of striped silks, i. 1. 09 ; vii. 1. 02 ; ix. 2. 025 (Pl. LXXVII), not unlike the modern
silks from Marghilān and other places in Ferghāna.

Monochrome figured silks or damasks are not numerous at Astāna, and just as at Ch'ien-fo-tung Patterns of
they show mostly 'geometric' designs.³⁸ Of these, ix. 2. 09 closely resembles a damask found at damasks
the T'ang shrine of T. xiv on the Tun-huang Limes.³⁹ Among the damasks of the floral type, and gauzes.
i. 1. 010 (Pl. LXXXIV) is worked in an elaborate 'spot' pattern like the polychrome examples
just mentioned. In i. 7. 03, 05 (Pl. LXXIX, LXXXIV) floral motifs conventionally treated are
combined with pairs of flying birds. Into the interesting scheme of i. 5. a. 01. c (Pl. LXXXIV)

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