Lot 499
499
A COPTIC POLYCHROME FRAGMENTARY TEXTILE FROM A LARGE HANGING
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more EGYPTIAN PROPERTY FROM A GERMAN PRIVATE COLLECTION Provenance: lots 499-507 were acquired 30-35 years ago by the present owner's late husband.
A COPTIC POLYCHROME FRAGMENTARY TEXTILE FROM A LARGE HANGING

6TH CENTURY A.D. OR LATER

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A COPTIC POLYCHROME FRAGMENTARY TEXTILE FROM A LARGE HANGING
6TH CENTURY A.D. OR LATER
Depicting an eagle with arching upraised wings within an arcade and part of a second eagle to the right, flanked by leafy plants and Ionic columns with scrolling capitals decorated in chequerboard, a larger column on the left, the eagle with pendant cross hanging from its beak, in blue, cream, green, ochre, pink, red and yellow, mounted on later textile backing
37½ x 26½ in. (95.2 x 67.3 cm.) max.
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Lot Essay

Cf. J. Trilling, The Roman Heritage: Textiles from Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean 300 to 600 AD, The Textile Museum, Washington, 1982, p. 95, no. 107 for a close parallel. Closely related fragments are in the Abegg-Stiftung Bern in Riggisberg and in the Ikonenmuseum, Recklinghausen.

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