A Frieze Corner with Various Figures and Floral Patterns
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A Frieze Corner with Various Figures and Floral Patterns

CORNER FRAGMENT – A frieze corner with framed, dark ornamental band on a light ground, densely filled with various floral patterns, kneeling human figures, fish and mythical creatures, plus filler motifs. At one end of the frieze, a small tondo with a dancing (?) human figure. Foliage-filled border at three frieze edges. Along one side inside the border another frieze of four and a half winged figures on talons.

Mounted on red linen ground and framed. Fragments of tunics, tabulae, etc. – Cf. Cat. Leipzig – 2002, 113 ff. nos. 157–173 with ill.

REFERENCE #

TX_EG_1006

CIVILIZATION

Egypt,

Coptic, 300 C.E. – 500 C.E.

SIZE

L. 26 cm, W. 22.5 cm

CONDITION

Fine Condition

PRICE

$1,500

PROVENANCE

Formerly Coll. Eduard Schällibaum, 1950’s–60’s, Chur. – On back of frames, alleged find spot “Upper Egypt”, inv. no. “716. 269. 476”.

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A Frieze Fragment with Lion
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A Frieze Fragment with Lion

FRIEZE FRAGMENT WITH LION. – Two tondi on a beige background, with a lion facing right and a grape vine (?) as part of a larger frieze, framed by a zigzag band with rhombi hanging from it.
Mounted on beige linen ground and framed. Fragments of tunics, tabulae, etc. – Cf. Cat. Leipzig – 2002, 113 ff. nos. 157–173 with ill.

REFERENCE #

TX_EG_1007

CIVILIZATION

Egypt, Coptic, 300 C.E. – 500 C.E.

SIZE

L. 12.8 cm, W. 11.5 cm

CONDITION

Fine Condition

PRICE

Price available upon request

PROVENANCE

Formerly Coll. Eduard Schällibaum, 1950’s–60’s, Chur. – On back of frames, alleged find spot “Upper Egypt”, inv. no. “716. 269. 476”.

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An Animal Frieze Fragment
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An Animal Frieze Fragment

ANIMAL FRIEZE FRAGMENT. – Dark frieze of large fish and winged creatures arranged either facing each other or one behind the other on a light ground. At the left end a human figure with hunting weapon (lagobolon?) rendered in a light colour on a dark ground. Framed by spiral border.

Mounted on beige linen ground and framed. Fragments of tunics, tabulae, etc. – Cf. Cat. Leipzig – 2002, 113 ff. nos. 157–173 with ill.

 

REFERENCE

#TX_EG_1002

CIVILIZATION

Egypt, Coptic, 300 C.E. – 500 C.E.

SIZE

L. 29 cm, W. 10 cm

CONDITION

Fine Condition

PRICE

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PROVENANCE

Formerly Coll. Eduard Schällibaum, 1950’s–60’s, Chur. – On back of frames, alleged find spot “Upper Egypt”, inv. no. “716. 269. 476”.

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Woven Cloth with Lion Frieze and Ornamental Bands
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Woven Cloth with Lion Frieze and Ornamental Bands

Important Woven Cloth with Lion Frieze and Ornamental Bands. Two-coloured tapestry weave in silhouette style, fine-threaded, dark grey and beige.

Rectangular length of cloth with centred vertical frieze of rampant lions with arching tails inside adjoining octagonal frames on a light-coloured ground, surrounded by a band of dense braiding with inside hatching alternating with flowers. Schematic palmettes in the spaces in between. Outer ornamental band of hanging rhombi. Lined up along the narrow edge at the bottom are four light-coloured, stocky human figures with bird’s feet, some with their left arm raised, set against a dark ground with fringed border below them. Fragment of a hanging

Sewn onto linen and framed. For style, ornamental structure and iconography, cf. Effenberger – 1976, 178, 216 f., 239, 270 f., pls. 119, 121, 125 (of later date, but with the same composition); Cat. Vienna – 2005, 155 f., no. 92 with illus.

 

REFERENCE #

TX_EG_1001

CIVILIZATION

Egypt, Coptic, 500 C.E. – 700 C.E.

SIZE

L. 99.2 cm, W. 26.5 cm

CONDITION

Fine Condition

PRICE

Price available upon request

PROVENANCE

Coll. A. and E. Offermann, Cologne (1965–2012). – Formerly private collection of Reichskanzler Franz von Papen (1879–1969), from June–December 1932 last but one Reichskanzler of the Weimar Republic, from January 1933 to July 1934 vice-chancellor in Hitler’s cabinet, later ambassador of the German Reich in Vienna and Ankara. Acquitted at the Nuremberg Trials of 1946, but one year later as one of the main culprits condemned to eight years in a labour camp as part of the denazification of Germany. Purchased in 2004 from Roswitha Eberwein, Antike Kunst, Göttingen. Declaration of provenance on back of frame: “Sammlung von Papen”.

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Woven Fragment with Dancing Eros
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Woven Fragment with Dancing Eros

Woven Fragment with Dancing Eros (?) . Multi-coloured cloth in beige, green and red. Fine-threaded.
The tondo with “running dog” frame is set inside an almost square, red and green frame with an ornamental band composed of fishes and human heads. At its centre is a nude, wreathed figure with crotales, branches and wineskins.

Sewn onto beige linen and framed. Fragment of a tunic or tabula. – Cf. Cat. Leipzig – 2002, 66, 71 nos. 1, 15 with illus.

REFERENCE #

TX_EG_1003

CIVILIZATION

Egypt, Coptic, 400 C.E. – 600 C.E.

SIZE

L. 10 cm, W. 10 cm

CONDITION

Fine Condition

PRICE

Price
$2,000

PROVENANCE

Coll. A. and E. Offermann, Cologne (1965-2012). – Formerly Coll. Bareiss. Thereafter auction Neumeister, Munich, ca. 2009.

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Woven Fragment with Running Figures
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Woven Fragment with Running Figures

The tondo with beige ground and framed in red and white contains three figures running to the left and another at bottom running to the right, their heads in some cases turned back. Green foliage as ornamental filler between them

Sewn onto beige linen and framed. Fragment of a tunic or tabula. – For style, cf. Cat. New York-MET – 1977, 32 f., 43 nos. 29, 39 with illus.

TX_EG_1004

CIVILIZATION

Egypt, Coptic, 500 C.E. – 600 C.E.

SIZE

D. 15.8 cm

CONDITION

Fine Condition

PRICE

$2,000

PROVENANCE

Coll. A. and E. Offermann, Cologne (1965-2012). – Formerly Coll. Bareiss. Thereafter auction Neumeister, Munich, ca. 2009. Inv. no. “39/195236/12” on back of frame.

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