Description : ANOTHER PROPERTY
A COPTIC TEXTILE PANEL
11 1/4 by 9 3/4 in. 28.6 by 24.8 cm.
in tapestry weave, with warp of natural linen and weft of black and red wool, woven within a square festoon border with three registers of three horizontally linked medallions each of octagonal form, an eagle(?) in the central medallion, the outer medallions containing alternating lions(?) and plant-motifs each within an alveoled inner border.
LITERATURE
Arte Primitivo, Howard S. Rose Gallery, Inc., New York, Classical, Egyptian, and Asian Antiquities, June 28th, 2004, no. 197, illus. and back cover
NOTE
For related examples see P. du Bourguet, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des Étoffes Coptes, vol. 1, Paris, 1964, pp. 142-143, D61-64.
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