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Document Details : Title: Pfister's Sassanian Cocks Tapestry Reconsidered Subtitle: A Rediscovery at the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana Author(s): OVERLAET, Bruno , DE JONGHE, Daniël , DAEMEN, Sonja Journal: Iranica Antiqua Volume: 31 Date: 1996 Pages: 179-211 DOI: 10.2143/IA.31.0.519280 Abstract : In 1938 Rodolphe Pfister published on some fragments of a Sassanian tapestry in his private collection which is up to this moment undoubtedly still the most spectacular of all the Sassanian style tapestries known to us, both from a technical and from an art historical point of view. The colours, different shades of red, green, yellow, brown and blue, have kept their original lustre and the iconography displays a wealth of refined details. Technically, the woollen tapestry with its Z-spun/S-plied warp and its Z-spun weft is woven in the extremely rare weft faced twill 2/1. Its weft density is exceptional, with no less than 100 to 200 picks per centimetre. |
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