ID 1037664
Lot 143 | A COPTIC TEXTILE FRAGMENT WITH THE VIRGIN AND CHILD
Estimate value
$ 12 000 – 18 000
CIRCA 5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.
30 ¼ in. (76.8 cm.) long
Provenance
Chafik Chammas, Paris, acquired by 1964.
with Galerie Simone de Monbrison, Paris, 1968 (Arts antiques, arts primitifs, n.p.).
Jean Roudillon (1923-2020), Paris; thence by descent to the current owner.
Literature
P. du Bourguet, et al., l’Art Copte, Paris, 1964, pp. 173-175, no. 186.
P. du Bourguet, Die Kopten, Baden-Baden, 1967, p. 45, fig B.A. 9.
D.G. Shepherd, “An Icon of the Virgin: A Sixth-Century Tapestry Panel from Egypt,” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 56, no. 3, 1969, pp. 114, 118, no. 29.
Exhibited
Paris, Musée du Petit Palais, l’Art Copte, 17 June-15 September 1964.
| Medium: | Linen, Textile |
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| Place of origin: | Egypt, Africa |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Ancient Art & Antiquities |
| Medium: | Linen, Textile |
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| Place of origin: | Egypt, Africa |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Ancient Art & Antiquities |
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