ABBASID 10TH CENTURY AND FATIMID 10TH/11TH CENTURY

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TWO TIRAZ BANDS
ABBASID 10TH CENTURY AND FATIMID 10TH/11TH CENTURY
One of plainweave linen woven in black cotton with an elegant strong kufic inscription including the name of the amir, glazed on both sides, together with a Fatimid smaller tapestry-weave fragment with central red band woven with a naskh inscription, rope-pattern above and below, mounted and glazed
8½ x 28¼in. (21.3 x 71.3cm.) and 2 x 5¼in. (5.3 x 13.5cm.) (2)

Provenance

Galerie à la reine Margot, Paris, 1960

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Lot Essay

The inscription on the larger textiel reads: "In the name of The King, The Compassionate, The Merciful. Al-Fadl Muti' li'llah, the Commander of the Faithful [May God] strengthen him"
This refers to al-Muti', the Abbasid Caliph (334-63/949-74)

The inscription on the second smaller fragment translates " ... for the affairs ...(?)"

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