Dress Panel
1720s (made)
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Dress panel of embroidered silk. The lower two-thirds of the panel is finely embroidered with coloured silks mainly in the shades of green, red, blue and yellow. With long and short and split stitches, and with French knots. The design consists of a delicate, irregular arrangement of flowers, buds and leaves connected by finely intertwined stems.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Embroidered silk |
| Brief description | Dress panel of embroidered silk, England, 1720s |
| Physical description | Dress panel of embroidered silk. The lower two-thirds of the panel is finely embroidered with coloured silks mainly in the shades of green, red, blue and yellow. With long and short and split stitches, and with French knots. The design consists of a delicate, irregular arrangement of flowers, buds and leaves connected by finely intertwined stems. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mrs George Atkinson |
| Production | Possibly worked by Mary Molineux. |
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| Accession number | T.122-1959 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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