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Sat, Feb 25, 2017 11:00AM EST - Sun, Feb 26, 2017 11:00AM EST
Lot 110

COPTIC TEXTILE FRAGMENT WITH A GREEN BIRD AND ROSE LATTICE

Estimate: $800 - $1,200
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Now mounted on a linen panel, tapestry weave with warp of natural lines and weft of natural yellow, green-yellow, red and blue wool. Overall 14 1/8 x 10 1/2 in., fragment 11 1/2 x 8 in. Literature: E.D. Macquire, Weavings from Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Egypt, The Rich Life and the Dance, University of Illinois, 1999, pg. 72, no. A28. Exhibited: Jerusalem, L.A. Mayer Memorial Institute for Islamic Art, Textiles from Egypt 4th-13th Centuries C.E., 1980; Urbana-Champaign, Krannert Art Museum, Weavings from Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Egypt, The Rich Life and the Dance, 1999.,