Bed Cover
1700-1800 (made)
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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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| 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. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Credit line | From the Bateson Collection |
| Object history | Given by the donor in memory of her husband, the late Professor W. Beteson. |
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| 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.
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.57-1926 |
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| Record created | October 20, 2005 |
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