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Egyptian dress

Gold on black with red patterning. rare design 22 K gold very heavy
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  • Linda, this is truly stunning.  Is this the famous "assuit" work, here done with gold instead of silver?

  • Fabulous!

  • Gorgeous you will look like Cleopatra in this one!!

  • Thanks again for posting all those beautiful items for us! I love to look at them, a great treat!

  • this is very heavy on but looks good because of the color I don't put it on a hanger but fold it and keep it in a drawer.

  • Linda in the 40 years i Live in Egypt!! I have never seen such a beautiful dress!! Do you know from which area?? is it maybe Fayum???

  • I have to confess I know nothing about Egypt. I got this from the private collection of a dealer who had in for many years and she herself got it from an older person who had it herself many years. So it's this ealier collecting of items that we see these incredible variations of maybe what was and they are preserved.  This is why I decided to start showing things since items get bottled up in collections and one can not imagine what is or was available. I have had this dress myself about 15 years alone.

  • Linda it is not a dress from the Delta!! North Sinai has the embrodery work what was introduced by the

    English around 1850!! 

    It could be from before that time, or from the Oasis like Fayum, Bahariya, Kharga or Dakhla!!

    Also not Siwa!!

    The south of Sinai is also possible!!

  • there is a pharaonic feel to it!!!  Marvelous

  • The cut of this dress reminds me of a traditional Bedouin dress.

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