Two sleeves of a chemise, worn at weddings and on special occasions. Worked with silk yarns. Design of sixteen parallel rows of orange stylized leaves, separated by densely embroidered parallel orange bands; six large blue semicircular motifs at either edge which would have been sewn together,...
Credit Line
Gift of Arthur E. Davis in the name of Alice Cheney Baltzell
Greek, 18th or 19th century
Object Place
Dodecanese, possibly Nisyros, Greece
Dimensions
74 x 84.5 cm (29 1/8 x 33 1/4 in.)
Accession Number
39.331
Medium or Technique
Linen or cotton embroidered with silk