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"description": "This fragment preserves parts of two distinct designs. In the lower section, a boar's head is framed by a pearl roundel; to left and right are fragments of two other roundels, and in the spandrels are segments of stylized flowers. In the field above are four feet of what must have been a rather large-scale horse standing in a meadow of flowers of which only fragments remain. A fifth hoof, turned in the opposite direction, indicates that originally the composition included a pair of horses addorsed. A double row of pearls occupies the spaces beneath the horses' feet, and a narrow plain band separates this field from the one below.",
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"citation": "Erdmann, Kurt. \"Eberdarstellung und Ebersymbolik in Iran\". Bonner Jahrbu\u0308cher Des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn. 1942",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 345\u2013382; Reproduced: pl. 77, fig. 3",
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"citation": "Lucidi, Maria Teresa. La seta e la sua via. Roma: Edizioni De Luca, 1994.",
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"citation": "Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.",
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