Lot 100
  • 100

Three Coptic Linen and Wool Tunic Fragments , circa 5th Century A.D.

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description

  • Three Coptic Linen and Wool Tunic Fragments
  • Heights 20 1/4 , 14 1/2 , and 6 1/4 in. 51.4, 36.8, and 15.9 cm.
comprising a plastron with two identical pairs of Pyrrhic dancers framed by arches resting on a central column, the attached clavi each with leaping hares and dancer, a double band with confronted running hares, and a square panel divided into four oval medallions.

Provenance

Artweave Textile Gallery, New York, 1990

Catalogue Note

Cf. E. Maguire, The Rich Life and the Dance: Weavings from Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Egypt, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1997, no. B18. Also see A. Baginski and A. Tidhar, Textiles from Egypt, 4th-13th Century C.E., Jerusalem, 1980, no. 43, in the Haifa Museum.