THREE TEXTILES: AN OTTOMAN BALKANS WAISTCOAT AND SASH AND A...
THREE TEXTILES: A FRAGMENT, WAISTCOAT AND OTTOMAN BALKAN SILK EMBROIDERED SASH
Ottoman Balkans and probably Greece, late 19th-early 20th century
Comprising a waistcoat, a sash and a textile fragment; the sleeveless waistcoat, composed from an ivory silk ground, decorated with large embroidered birds in dense silver-grey thread, with long wings and forked tails, the edges, armholes and hem with raised braid-and-cord embroidery; the sash, with a coral silk ground, embroidered in couched metal thread, with scrolling tendrils, small flowering sprigs and small cross-shaped fillers, the central motif a large triangular palmette-cluster, with fringed ends, both items in the Balkans style; the textile fragment, probably Greek, composed of several unrelated fragments, laid out in a patchwork of nested squares.
The waistcoat 43.5cm x 47.5cm; the sash 152cm x 27cm with tassels, 142cm x 19cm without; the fragment 29.5cm x 29cm
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THREE TEXTILES: A FRAGMENT, WAISTCOAT AND OTTOMAN BALKAN SILK EMBROIDERED SASH
Ottoman Balkans and probably Greece, late 19th-early 20th century
Comprising a waistcoat, a sash and a textile fragment; the sleeveless waistcoat, composed from an ivory silk ground, decorated with large embroidered birds in dense silver-grey thread, with long wings and forked tails, the edges, armholes and hem with raised braid-and-cord embroidery; the sash, with a coral silk ground, embroidered in couched metal thread, with scrolling tendrils, small flowering sprigs and small cross-shaped fillers, the central motif a large triangular palmette-cluster, with fringed ends, both items in the Balkans style; the textile fragment, probably Greek, composed of several unrelated fragments, laid out in a patchwork of nested squares.
The waistcoat 43.5cm x 47.5cm; the sash 152cm x 27cm with tassels, 142cm x 19cm without; the fragment 29.5cm x 29cm
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