COPTIC TEXTILES, 2 pieces, tapestry weave and "fliegende Nadel", ca 20 x 21 and 15,5 x 14,5 cm, Egypt
around 400-600 A.D. Coptic garment decorations. The larger is brown with two cartouches with dark brown and ivory shapes as well as a hooked border. The smaller is a square with different diamond patterns in dark brown and ivory as well as a cartouche with a polychrome bird like decor. The larger is mounted (ca 23 x 25 cm).
Stains, damages, holes. The glass mounting has a damage at one corner.
Provenance
The larger from Agnes Geijer, a Swedish textile historian, archaeologist and Ph.D. with a thesis on the textile findings from the Birka burials. The smaller bought in an antique shop at Sibyllegatan, Stockholm, in the 1960's.
Others have also viewed
1582658
An antique Tibetian meditation rug,
approximately 70 x 60 cm.
Current bid
1 100 SEK
3d 22h
Estimate
2 500 SEK