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Property from a New York Private Collection

An Egyptian Linen Textile Panel, circa 9th/10th century A.D.

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

woven against a deep blue field with three panels in numerous colours against a red ground, two with a frieze of human figures riding felines with their right hands raised, their tunics in alternating colours, the fragmentary central band with polygonal panels containing animals and human figures.

32.5 by 33.7 inches (82.5 by 85.7 cm.)

Collection of Milton Girod-Mallon (Sotheby's, New York, December 12th/13th, 1991, lot 55, illus.)

acquired at the above sale by the current owner


PUBLISHED

Sotheby’s, London, July 2nd, 2019, no. 280, illus.