COPTIC TEXTILES, 2 pieces, tapestry weave and "fliegende Nadel", ca 20 x 21 and 15,5 x 14,5 cm, Egypt.

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.

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