African & Oceanic Art | Antiquities - 8th June 2021
Lot 377
An Egyptian Coptic embroidered fragment
Estimate £2,500 - £3,500
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Description
An Egyptian Coptic embroidered fragment
circa 5th - 9th century AD
the main panel with a frieze depicting musicians, two with wings, under arcades with urns, to a guilloche border with animals, and smaller floret arcades, one edge with a chevron border,
36cm x 33.5cm, mounted in a perspex frame.
Provenance
Spinks, London, 13 June 1990.