Dress Fabric
1840-1870 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Dress fabric of brocaded silk. Consisting of nearly the whole of the width seamed to half a width. The pattern is brocaded on a black ground and consists of two vertical bands of posies of field flowers in natural colours on either side of a band of figured shaded green foliage and with half a band of the foliage on the further side of the floral bands.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Brocaded silk |
| Brief description | Dress fabric of brocaded silk, possibly made in England, 1840-1870 |
| Physical description | Dress fabric of brocaded silk. Consisting of nearly the whole of the width seamed to half a width. The pattern is brocaded on a black ground and consists of two vertical bands of posies of field flowers in natural colours on either side of a band of figured shaded green foliage and with half a band of the foliage on the further side of the floral bands. |
| Credit line | Given by Mr J. Sassoon |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.10A-1964 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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