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Coptic fabric, Ethiopia Fabric, ink, varnish L. 167 cm l. 17 cm Provenance : Paul and Jacqueline Canfère Collection acquired from Jean-Michel Huguenin (according to oral information from descendants). "The Arabs called the inhabitants of Egypt Copts at the time of the advent of Islam," emphasizes Marie-Cécile Bruwier, Egyptologist and scientific director of the Royal Museum of Mariemont. The fragments preserved are most often tapestries that have been separated from the tunics they adorned. "For purely commercial reasons, it was common to cut out the motifs woven into the large textiles to sell them separately" (Chris Verhecken-Lammens). A beautiful strip of Coptic fabric, in an exceptional state of preservation, having retained all of the inscriptions presented therein as well as its natural dyes, madder (red), on the two faces of the characters represented, obviously belonging in view of their attributes to religious members, the lotus root, or saffron (yellow).
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Coptic fabric, Ethiopia Fabric, ink, varnish L. 167 cm l. 17 cm Provenance : Paul and Jacqueline Canfère Collection acquired from Jean-Michel Huguenin (according to oral information from descendants). "The Arabs called the inhabitants of Egypt Copts at the time of the advent of Islam," emphasizes Marie-Cécile Bruwier, Egyptologist and scientific director of the Royal Museum of Mariemont. The fragments preserved are most often tapestries that have been separated from the tunics they adorned. "For purely commercial reasons, it was common to cut out the motifs woven into the large textiles to sell them separately" (Chris Verhecken-Lammens). A beautiful strip of Coptic fabric, in an exceptional state of preservation, having retained all of the inscriptions presented therein as well as its natural dyes, madder (red), on the two faces of the characters represented, obviously belonging in view of their attributes to religious members, the lotus root, or saffron (yellow).
