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Part of a curtain from Siphnos, Cyclades, Greece - 18th century Silk on linen 145 x 36 cm The embroideries of Siphnos are extremely rare. The only known complete curtain with this decoration is T.693-1919 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, consisting of four loom-widths of linen. It seems that other Siphnos curtains were made by joining vertical strips of half loom-widths, as in this case. PROVENANCE private collection, Greece LITERATURE (comparative literature) Ioannou-Yannara (Tatiana), Greek embroidery, 17th-19th century. Works of art from the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Athens 2006, p. 266, no. 79