Embroidered Jacket
Turkey or eastern Balkans (map), d. 19th c.
Embroidered wool and silk with felt lining
15” h x 60” w (38 x 52.5 cm)
$1,200
“This type of embroidery, based on stylized vegetation, was characteristic of the work of professional embroiderers in the Balkans” (vide Gervers 1872: 86–8).
