Property from a Swiss Private Collection
A Collection of Coptic Textiles, circa 4th/8th century A.D.
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July 6, 12:36 PM GMT
Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
A Collection of Coptic Textiles
circa 4th/8th century A.D.
mounted in eight frames, the designs including highly stylized human figures, a dancing maenad, liturgical symbols, interlaced geometric and foliate motifs, a l꧅arge palmette, and roundels with dense human and animal mot🌟ifs.
Appr🌄ox. sizes 13.5 x 8.5 to 15.5 x 71 cm.; the palmetteꦇ 30 x 17 cm.
Carl Leonhard Burckhardt (b. 1902, Basel, d. 1965, Alexandria)
thence by descent
thence by descent
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