The Lion Strangler
1100
- Medium
- Medium: silk, gilded vellum with silk core Technique: two integrated plain weave structures (lampas) Label: silk and metallic lampas
- Genre
- Woven textiles
Styles
About
Fragment of woven silk with large tangent roundels. Each roundel contains a symmetrical design of a bearded man strangling a lion in each arm. A small animal is under each lion's feet and a pair of small birds appear between the strangler's feet. The roundel frame consists of confronted griffons with pearl guard bands.