Beschreibung:

A group of Greek Island embroidered textiles. including a Cretan muslin panel worked with bowls of fruit in silk and metal strip to each end, c.1840; a Cypriot or Aegean islands pulled and drawn-threadwork koran cover c.1850; a fragment of Naxos floss silk embroidery; a cross stitch embroidered 'icon' cloth, Amorgos, early 19th century; a sleeve from a Nisyros poukamiso c.1750; a Cretan bolster with embroidered inscription; a sampler panel; quantity of Cretan runners, bolsters, early 20th century and others (qty) See 'Ottoman Texiles' pp63, 116, 167; 'Embroidery of the Greek Islands' pp 41,75, 117, both by Roderick Taylor. Provenance: the late Roderick Taylor collection .