SKYROS, SPORADES ISLANDS, OTTOMAN GREECE, 18TH CENTURY

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AN EMBROIDERED FIGURAL TEXTILE FRAGMENT
SKYROS, SPORADES ISLANDS, OTTOMAN GREECE, 18TH CENTURY
Possibly from a bed cover, silk on cream linen ground, embroidered with a standing figure wearing a turban, tunic and elaborate moustache flanked by two smaller figures amidst floral sprays, the border with simplified floral scrollwork, mounted, framed and glazed, the frame with mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell inlay
The panel 15 ½ x 12 ¾in. (39.5 x 32.4cm.)

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Lot Essay

Our figural fragment, possibly from a bed cover, finds a direct comparison in another fragment attributed to the 18th century and now kept at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (T.57-1926). The layout of the figural motifs on the museum’s piece is identical to our panel where two diminutive female attendants flank a taller figure of a male in Ottoman dress.

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