BZ.1937.29, Mounted Archer and Lion Textile
Byzantine Collection, Dumbarton Oaks Museum
Byzantine, seventh–eighth century
Silk, 30 cm x 24 cm (11 13/16 in. x 9 7/16 in.)
Mildred Barnes Bliss and Robert Woods Bliss acquired this textile from the London dealer Burg-Drey (a collaboration of the dealers Hermann Burg and Franz A. Drey) through William Royall Tyler in November 1937.