A FATIMID TIRAZ FRAGMENT

EGYPT, 10TH/11TH CENTURY

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A FATIMID TIRAZ FRAGMENT
EGYPT, 10TH/11TH CENTURY
Of plainwoven undyed linen tabby, woven with a black tapestry band of large kufic script inscription with elegant extended verticals containing white roundels, mounted and glazed
12¼ x 11½in. (31 x 29.3cm.) at largest

Provenance

European private collection since 1970s.

Lot Essay

The inscription here reads, ...atala Allah baqa'ahu (May God prolong his existence).

A closely related tiraz with similar kufic script is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. It is dated AH 357/967-8 AD (Anna Contadini, Fatimid Art at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1998. p.61, pl.14).

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