An Ottoman silk and metal thread-embroidered wool barber's apron, Turkey, second half of the 18th Century
of rectangular form with opening for neck to top, the red wool ground profusely embroidered in polychrome silks and white metal strips with an interlace of large peonies and other flowers, the border with a floral vine, silk backing
183 x 118 cm.
For a comparable apron with a design of large peonies in the Sadberk Hanim Museum see Hulya Bilgi and Idil Zanbak, Skill of the Hand, delight of the eye, Istanbul 2012, pp. 130-133, no. 33.
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of rectangular form with opening for neck to top, the red wool ground profusely embroidered in polychrome silks and white metal strips with an interlace of large peonies and other flowers, the border with a floral vine, silk backing
183 x 118 cm.
For a comparable apron with a design of large peonies in the Sadberk Hanim Museum see Hulya Bilgi and Idil Zanbak, Skill of the Hand, delight of the eye, Istanbul 2012, pp. 130-133, no. 33.
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