TUNISIA, Raf-Raf, early 20th century - Lot 213

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TUNISIA, Raf-Raf, early 20th century - Lot 213
TUNISIA, Raf-Raf, early 20th century Bayadère wedding dress. Red and white striped cotton dress with straight stand-up collar, richly embroidered bib with metallic threads and gold sequins and cotton threads in vivid polychrome, white tulle sleeves embroidered with geometric motifs, accented with green, purple, pink and blue pompons, and fine black lace trim. Black and green embroidery at the base of the dress. Black and green embroidery at the base of the dress (Condition: slight wear and small stains). Height 100 cm; Length: 111 cm LS A similar tunic dress is in the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac (inv. 71.1964.18.44). Another is illustrated in the exhibition catalog by Marie-France Vivier, Noces tissées, Noces Brodées. Parures et costumes féminins de Tunisie, March 29-July 3, 1995, ill.72-73. Another shirt-dress described as a "tattooed" third-day dress-tunic, from the Raf-Raf region, is kept at the Musée de l'Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (inv. AI 96.01) (see the exhibition catalog "De soie et d'or. Broderies du Maghreb", Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, June 11-September 29, 1996, ill. p. 39).
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