Dress Fabric
ca 1780 (made)
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Two lengths of fabric from the petticoat of a dress. White China silk hand painted with a design of intertwined floral sprays tied with bows.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Hand-painting on silk |
| Brief description | painted silk, 1700s, French |
| Physical description | Two lengths of fabric from the petticoat of a dress. White China silk hand painted with a design of intertwined floral sprays tied with bows. |
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| Object history | A sleeve was acquired with these two lengths of skirt fabric which is now missing. Possibly 271A-1890. The sleeve seems to have been part of theCirculation Department. There is a dress of related fabric (missing the left sleeve) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, museum number 1976.146ab. See Bernier, Olivier. 'The Eighteenth-Century Woman'. Doubleday published in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1981. |
| Production | Chinese export fabric used in a French dress |
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| Accession number | 271-1890 |
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| Record created | March 24, 2006 |
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