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Band with Stylized Flowers
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Polychrome, wool tapestry band decorated with a design of flowers. The band has outer red borders of regularly dispersed white florets and paired white dots. The central field is dark blue with a design of repeating foliage motifs. Some of these flowers may emerge from kantharoi. Along both sides of the band are undyed areas of fabric.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of The Hagop Kevorkian Foundation in memory of Hagop Kevorkian
Title: Band with Stylized Flowers
Description:
Polychrome, wool tapestry band decorated with a design of flowers.
The band has outer red borders of regularly dispersed white florets and paired white dots.
The central field is dark blue with a design of repeating foliage motifs.
Some of these flowers may emerge from kantharoi.
Along both sides of the band are undyed areas of fabric.
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