Christening Robe
1800-1850 (made)
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Baby's robe, cambric fabric with white cotton embroidery, drawn work, and needlepoint lace. The V-shaped bodice front and short sleeves have floral devices with borders of small squares and medallions containing minute rosettes and diapers. The skirt is decorated with a vertical arrangement of a central band filled with baskets of flowers on diaper grounds, flanked by wavy or interlacing floral stems, with festoons and rosettes below. There is a narrow scalloped edging worked with similar stems. The squares, mdallions, and flowers have openwork centres of lace stitches.
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Materials and techniques | Embroidered cambric |
Brief description | Cambric christening robe, cotton embroidery and needlepoint lace with floral patterns (Ayrshire work?), English, first half of the 19th century |
Physical description | Baby's robe, cambric fabric with white cotton embroidery, drawn work, and needlepoint lace. The V-shaped bodice front and short sleeves have floral devices with borders of small squares and medallions containing minute rosettes and diapers. The skirt is decorated with a vertical arrangement of a central band filled with baskets of flowers on diaper grounds, flanked by wavy or interlacing floral stems, with festoons and rosettes below. There is a narrow scalloped edging worked with similar stems. The squares, mdallions, and flowers have openwork centres of lace stitches. |
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Marks and inscriptions | 'Portal' (Marked 'Portal' in ink.) |
Credit line | Given by Miss E. Gibbard in accordance with the wish of Miss Portal |
Object history | Registered File number 1929/6066 |
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Accession number | T.96-1929 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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