Turquerie Silk
1915

Lovely colours and charming depictions of Middle Eastern scenes. With the drawn threadwork hem this must have been a bedcover.

Description

The tussore silk printed with Turkish or Middle Eastern scenes, 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,

26 x 32 in; 66 x 80 cm

Condition

One hole 1/2 inch diameter on the lower mosque.