Greece, Cyclades or Dodecanese Islands

Bed Curtain

1675/1725
Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in running (pattern darning) stitches; edge finished with buttonhole and four-sided stitches; needle-made inserts of oblique interlacing; four loom widths joined
324.3 × 196.7 cm (127.7 × 77.4 in)

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