A COPTIC TEXTILE TUNIC FOR A BOY

7TH-8TH CENTURY A.D.

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A COPTIC TEXTILE TUNIC FOR A BOY
7TH-8TH CENTURY A.D.
With a waist tuck, decorated with twining and purple shoulder roundels, clavi, sleeve bands and hem roundels containing plant motifs, with frame
Tunic 26 x 32.7/8 in. (66 x 83.5 cm.) approx.

Exhibited

Textiles: a suitable case for treatment, The Museum of London, 1977.

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
M. Gregoriou, The Conservation of a Boy's Coptic Tunic, 7th-8th Century A.D., The Textile Conservation Centre and The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1990 (a copy accompanies this lot).

Purchased Sotheby's, London, 11 June 1973, part lot 177.

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