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Bed Cover

1700-1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Embroidered in polychrome silk on linen. Double darning, brick, outline, satin and chain stitches. Two widths of a three width spread, which have been joined horizontally one above the other and finished with a coloured silk fringe. The motif of a man in Turkish dress, attended by two women on a smaller scale, and surrounded by flower sprays and birds, is repeated horizontally along each width.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Linen embroidered with silk in double darning, brick, outline, satin and chain stitches
Brief description
Linen bed cover embroidered with silk, 1700s, Greek; Sporades, Skyros
Physical description
Embroidered in polychrome silk on linen. Double darning, brick, outline, satin and chain stitches. Two widths of a three width spread, which have been joined horizontally one above the other and finished with a coloured silk fringe. The motif of a man in Turkish dress, attended by two women on a smaller scale, and surrounded by flower sprays and birds, is repeated horizontally along each width.
Dimensions
  • Length: 61.5in
  • Width: 30in
Production typeUnique
Credit line
From the Bateson Collection
Object history
Given by the donor in memory of her husband, the late Professor W. Beteson.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Wace, A.J.B, William Matthew Trevor Lawrence, Catalogue of a Collection of Old Embroideries of the Greek Islands and Turkey, London: Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1914. 123
Collection
Accession number
T.57-1926

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Record createdOctober 20, 2005
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