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Turquerie Silk
c 1915


Great fun and very unusual. Probably cut from a bedcover and almost certainly from Liberty's.


Cataloguing


the tussore silk printed with Turkish or Middle Eastern scenes, with a mosque and curling tipped Cypress trees, weeping willows and groups of men, one with long sleeves dancing?, all in soft shades of blue, touches of brown and yellow on a chrome yellow ground, the bottom with a pulled threadwork double thickness hem, 21 x 26 in d; 54 66 cm drop


Condition


Very good condition.