Pair of Gloves
1700-1725 (made)
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Pair of women’s gloves of cream leather, with salmon-coloured leather forks, reaching to the elbow. They are embroidered in coloured silk floss and couched with silver filé, over thick padding in a design of a bird and flower on the back of the hand. The fingers are outlined in herringbone stitch in blue silk with a row of short lines in blue in the centre of each finger and a tuft of blue silk at the base of each. The opening of each glove is edged with a blue and yellow looped fringe.
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Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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Materials and techniques | Leather, silk; tawed, hand-embroidered, hand-sewn |
Brief description | A pair of women's gloves of cream leather, 1700-25, English; embroidered in coloured silks and metal thread, silk fringe |
Physical description | Pair of women’s gloves of cream leather, with salmon-coloured leather forks, reaching to the elbow. They are embroidered in coloured silk floss and couched with silver filé, over thick padding in a design of a bird and flower on the back of the hand. The fingers are outlined in herringbone stitch in blue silk with a row of short lines in blue in the centre of each finger and a tuft of blue silk at the base of each. The opening of each glove is edged with a blue and yellow looped fringe. |
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Accession number | T.76-1957 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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