Lot 410
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A COPTIC TEXTILE TUNIC FRAGMENT
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A COPTIC TEXTILE TUNIC FRAGMENT

CIRCA 5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.

Details
A COPTIC TEXTILE TUNIC FRAGMENT
CIRCA 5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.
With decorative square panel and right-angled border, the panel with central medallion flanked in the corners by four medallion male busts wearing tunics with clavi, rope pattern and tendril friezes between, the border with three haloed medallion busts wearing clavi, tendril friezes between, all the medallions with bright red borders and blue grounds, glazed
20 x 16½ in. (51 x 42 cm.)
Provenance
Acquired in 1960 from Jacques Matoussian.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium
Sale room notice
The textile is not glazed.

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Seltene Antike Koptische, Islamische und Präkolumbianische Stoffe Sowie Teile Alter Vorderasiatischer Teppiche, Galerie Heidi Vollmoeller, Zurich, 2001, 10, p. 26, no. 0170.

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