Lot 135
135
A linen Tiraz border fragment, woven with a band of tapestry woven blue linen kufic inscription, with decorative scrolling motif in-filling--8 x 4.75in. (20 x 12cm.), late Tulinid, early Fatimid Dynasty, 9-10th century, sandwich framed between two plates of glassSee Illustration
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A linen Tiraz border fragment, woven with a band of tapestry woven blue linen kufic inscription, with decorative scrolling motif in-filling--8 x 4.75in. (20 x 12cm.), late Tulinid, early Fatimid Dynasty, 9-10th century, sandwich framed between two plates of glassSee Illustration

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A linen Tiraz border fragment, woven with a band of tapestry woven blue linen kufic inscription, with decorative scrolling motif in-filling--8 x 4.75in. (20 x 12cm.), late Tulinid, early Fatimid Dynasty, 9-10th century, sandwich framed between two plates of glassSee Illustration
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

Cf Mittelalterliche Textilien I, Aegypten, Persien unter Mesopotamien, Spanien und Nordafrika, Abegg Stiftung Riggisberg, Karel Otavsky, Muhammad Abbas Muhammad Salim, 1995, page 61, cat no 25, for a similarly worked textile

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