ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
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AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED LINEN FUNERARY PORTRAIT
ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
For a woman, depicted frontal, with a round face and long neck framed by thick black tresses of hair, her fleshtone pink with black details, the eyes with white sclerae and black pupils, the lashes and extending cosmetic lines indicated, wearing a pale orange tunic with white shoulder straps outlined in black, and a necklace with a crescentic pendant; together with a Coptic textile fragment, circa 4th-5th century A.D., with a dancer depicted nude but for a red necklace and black boots, his body turned to his left, the arms raised, set on a red ground
18 in. (45.7 cm.) long (2)
ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
For a woman, depicted frontal, with a round face and long neck framed by thick black tresses of hair, her fleshtone pink with black details, the eyes with white sclerae and black pupils, the lashes and extending cosmetic lines indicated, wearing a pale orange tunic with white shoulder straps outlined in black, and a necklace with a crescentic pendant; together with a Coptic textile fragment, circa 4th-5th century A.D., with a dancer depicted nude but for a red necklace and black boots, his body turned to his left, the arms raised, set on a red ground
18 in. (45.7 cm.) long (2)
Provenance
Funerary portrait: with Dikran Kelekian, New York, 1943.
Coptic textile: Hans and Ellen Moeller.
Both: Pennsylvania Private Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 12 June 2001, lot 333 (part).
Coptic textile: Hans and Ellen Moeller.
Both: Pennsylvania Private Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 12 June 2001, lot 333 (part).
Literature
Coptic textile: A. Rannit, et al., Coptic Art: Exhibition of Coptic Art by the Olsen Foundation, Connecticut, 1955, no. 65.
Exhibited
Coptic textile: Guilford, Connecticut, Coptic Art: Exhibition of Coptic Art by the Olsen Foundation, November - December 1955.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
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