Advanced Search 
Part of a border
Greek (Attica)
19th century
Object Place: Attica, Greece
Medium/Technique
Silk Embroidery
Dimensions
Overall: 18.5 x 41 cm (7 5/16 x 16 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift
Accession Number40.525
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionGround completely covered with polychrome silks in stem filling stitches and raised gold embroidery. A wide band of conventionalized flowering plants on a black ground, bordered along one side by a band of irregular quadrilateral forms and along the other by a band of hexagons containing single conventionalized flowering plants. Cut on three sides.