Velvet vest with gold-thread embroidery: floral patterns, birds and a double-headed eagle. Neo-Hellenic gold-thread embroidery, continuing the Byzantine tradition, developed, in the course of the 18th c., into an art practised primarily by men. Its secular use was mainly confined to the official attire of the more prosperous classes. From Corfu in the Ionian islands. 19th-c. H. 0.42 m. (EE 1385)
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