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Lot 27*

A Fatimid woven linen Fragment (tiraz)
Egypt, 11th/ 12th Century

Amended
21 April 2015, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £5,000

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A Fatimid woven linen Fragment (tiraz)
Egypt, 11th/ 12th Century

of rectangular form, in mustard yellow, red and blue with a central band of roundels containing animals flanked by bands of pseudo kufic and lozenge motifs, framed
70cm x 17cm

Footnotes

Provenance:
Hayford Peirce (1885-1946) Collection, Paris and Bangor, Maine, formed in the 1910s-1930s, thence by descent.

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Please note that the decoration is silk.

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