A 'SPERBER' BED TENT PANEL
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A 'SPERBER' BED TENT PANEL

RHODES, 17TH CENTURY

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A 'SPERBER' BED TENT PANEL
RHODES, 17TH CENTURY
embroidered in red and green floss silks on a natural linen ground
132 x 78in. (317 x 187cm.)

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Lot Essay

See Pauline Johnstone, A Guide to Greek Embroidery, 1974, page 34 for a comparative example, and Aegean Crossroads, James Trilling, page 132, Catalogue number 48.
Compare the Rhodean room illustrated in Embroidery of the Greek Island and Epirus Region, Sumru Belger Krody, page 62, showing a mounted bed tent in situ.

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