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Border Fragment
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Long, narrow red band woven with "mermaid" figures and flowering vines in which are birds and monkeys.
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Denman Waldo Ross Cambridge gift; to Fogg Art Museum 1927
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross
Title: Border Fragment
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Long, narrow red band woven with "mermaid" figures and flowering vines in which are birds and monkeys.
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