CIRCA 5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.

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A COPTIC TEXTILE FRAGMENT OF A STAG OR IBEX
CIRCA 5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.
Depicting a pirouetting animal moving to right, its neck bound with a striped scarf billowing out behind, the square surrounded by panels of quatrefoils, mounted
7½ x 5 1/8 in. (19 x 13 cm.)

Provenance

Formerly in the Kofler-Truniger collection.
Heidi Vollmoeller; acquired in 1972.

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Lot Essay

Cf. D. Thompson, Coptic Textiles in The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1971, no. 16, pl. X, which depicts a stag, generally representing the 42nd Psalm in Christian art. "It also appeared occasionally, perhaps symbolically, in contemporary Sasanian decorative arts, in which the convention of showing various animals and birds with flying scarves or ribbons at the neck was common".

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