Waistcoat and Belt
ca. 1825-1850 (made)
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Child's waistcoat with matching belt and hanging purse. White woollen cloth heavily embroidered with gold thread (on a core of yellow silk) in laid work. The garment is edged all down the front edges and around the back with bobbles of gold thread each tipped with a red bead. It is lined with old gold satin-faced mashru fabric. The matching belt fastens with hooks and eyes and has a matching purse or hanging pocket suspended from it by a gold braid matching that used to edge the belt. The belt and waistcoat are further ornamented with gold bobbles, some suspended in bunches on gold braids.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Woven wool, embroidered with gold thread in laid work |
| Brief description | Child's waistcoat with matching belt and hanging purse, woven wool, embroidered with gold thread in laid work, North India, ca. 1825-1850 |
| Physical description | Child's waistcoat with matching belt and hanging purse. White woollen cloth heavily embroidered with gold thread (on a core of yellow silk) in laid work. The garment is edged all down the front edges and around the back with bobbles of gold thread each tipped with a red bead. It is lined with old gold satin-faced mashru fabric. The matching belt fastens with hooks and eyes and has a matching purse or hanging pocket suspended from it by a gold braid matching that used to edge the belt. The belt and waistcoat are further ornamented with gold bobbles, some suspended in bunches on gold braids. |
| Credit line | Given by Mrs C. M. Winpenny |
| Object history | Presented to the donor's great-grandmother when she was a child in India probably in the second quarter of the 19th century "by a high ranking Indian", presumably, judging from the style, a Muslim in the Panjab / Uttar Pradesh / North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa). It is said to have been intended as fancy dress for the little girl and appears to have been scarcely worn. Registered File number 1977/2023. |
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| Accession number | IS.105&A-1977 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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