Not on display

Dress Panel

1720s (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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

Categories
Object type
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.
Dimensions
  • Length: 61in
  • Selvedge to selvedge width: 16.75in
Credit line
Given by Mrs George Atkinson
Production
Possibly worked by Mary Molineux.
Collection
Accession number
T.122-1959

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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