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Embroidered Fragment

1700s

Greece, 18th century

Medium
embroidery; silk and gold filé on cotton tabby
Measurements
Overall: 20.5 x 43.8 cm (8 1/16 x 17 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial Collection, Gift of William Mathewson Milliken 1972.223
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A horizontally long off-white cotton fragment is embroidered with dense floral motifs in silk and gold filé. Large, stylized flowers in purple, red, and tan bloom from thick, curving metallic brown vines. A textured brown bird sits in the upper center. A wavy metallic line separates the large blooms from a row of smaller buds and a fringed gold border along the bottom edge.

Embroidered Fragment

1700s

Greece, 18th century

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