Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
Catalogue, Orangerie '88, Berlin, 1988, col pl. 12.
Catalogue, Orangerie '88, Berlin, 1988, col pl. 12.
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CIRCA 5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.
Details
A COPTIC TEXTILE TUNIC PANEL
CIRCA 5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.
Rectangular, with neck band and descending clavi, decorated in purplish-brown, the neck band with lower frieze of arcading, each niche containing a dancing or winged figure, above a frieze of three ovals and two rectangles linked, containing a nereid and sea monster, two with animals, a vase, and figure beside a pillar, the upper frieze with two lions and one hare roundel between four couples with details in blue, red and yellow, the clavi each decorated with linked ovals and squares decorated with figures beside pillars, huntsmen, dancers, nereids, a roundel with two figures each holding a bird with two animals in the field, vases and animals including lions and birds, with border of crosses, a fringe along the lower edge, mounted
45½ x 24½ in. (115.6 x 62.2 cm.)
CIRCA 5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.
Rectangular, with neck band and descending clavi, decorated in purplish-brown, the neck band with lower frieze of arcading, each niche containing a dancing or winged figure, above a frieze of three ovals and two rectangles linked, containing a nereid and sea monster, two with animals, a vase, and figure beside a pillar, the upper frieze with two lions and one hare roundel between four couples with details in blue, red and yellow, the clavi each decorated with linked ovals and squares decorated with figures beside pillars, huntsmen, dancers, nereids, a roundel with two figures each holding a bird with two animals in the field, vases and animals including lions and birds, with border of crosses, a fringe along the lower edge, mounted
45½ x 24½ in. (115.6 x 62.2 cm.)