TUNISIA, late 19th-early 20th century - Lot 212

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TUNISIA, late 19th-early 20th century - Lot 212
TUNISIA, late 19th-early 20th century Large wedding tunic dress. Silk embroidered with silver metallic threads, and polychrome embroidered cotton braids, on cardboard core. Vertical bands of yellow and vermilion, the yellow bands inset with stylized plant motifs. Neckline extended by a median slit and front panel entirely embroidered with metallic threads. (Condition: heavy wear, discoloration on front, reverse with fresh colors, tears, chips, old restorations). Height: 117 cm; Armhole width: 100 cm LS For two outfits from the Raf-Raf region, early 20th century, exhibited in 1995 at the Musée des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océaniens, Paris, and currently at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac (inv. no. 71.1989.25.199.1 and 71.1982.95.1), see the exhibition catalog by Marie-France Vivier, Noces tissées, Noces Brodées. Parures et costumes féminins de TUNISIE, March 29-July 3, 1995, ill. 49-50 and 62-63. Another wedding tunic from Hamamet held at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (inv. AI 89.48) is illustrated in the exhibition catalog "De soie et d'or. Broderies du Maghreb", Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, June 11-September 29, 1996, ill. p. 49.
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