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LOT 0460
Egyptian Coptic-Fatimid Mounted Textile with Dancers
CIRCA 12TH CENTURY A.D.
23 5/8 x 14 in. (285 grams, 60 x 35.5 cm).
The woven textile fragment of linen and wool with a large horizontal decorative band depicting octagonal rosettes inscribed in rhomboids; the rosettes divided by stylised columns decorated with foliage elements; the band edged by two lateral segments formed of octagonal rosettes enclosing flowers, bordered with scalloped geometries; at the bottom four stylised dancers. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
Literature
Cf. Rutschowscaya, M.H., Tissus Coptes, Paris, 1990, p.73, for similar.
Footnotes
It is the lower part of a cloak from the Fatimid era. The end of the Coptic period was characterised by a treatment of eight-lobed rosettes, a current motif in Muslim art. The four dancers are made as simple signs.
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