Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalogue (retrieved 9 November 2016).
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York houses a small fragment of Chinese embroidery that shows two confronted birds. The fragment measures 31.1 x 36.8 cm and is worked in silk on a silk ground material. It is dated to the early eighth century. The pattern with the two opposed birds was popular in the early Tang period (Tang Dynasty: 618-907).
Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalogue (retrieved 9 November 2016).
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