A COPTIC TEXTILE FRAGMENT, decorated with a central red frieze of white running animals flanking blue and green medallions decorated with confronting ochre birds, with ochre, brown and blue border friezes -- 10.5/8 x 3.3/8 in. (27 x 8.5 cm.), 11th-12th Century A.D.; and two smaller woven fragments with decorative bands, Islamic period, all framed and glazed, frame 18 x 14 (48 x 36 cm.) (3)

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A COPTIC TEXTILE FRAGMENT, decorated with a central red frieze of white running animals flanking blue and green medallions decorated with confronting ochre birds, with ochre, brown and blue border friezes -- 10.5/8 x 3.3/8 in. (27 x 8.5 cm.), 11th-12th Century A.D.; and two smaller woven fragments with decorative bands, Islamic period, all framed and glazed, frame 18 x 14 (48 x 36 cm.) (3)
Provenance
Iklé Collection: sold Christie's, London, 7 November 1989, lot 106.

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