Fragments of a dress
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Parts of a dress. Pannier skirt with fronts of bodice; also a piece of the train. Compound fancy cloth ground of white taffeta with extra warp of apple green which appears in broad vertical stripes of horizontal ribbing. Brocaded designs of serpentine ribbons, in the white ground, and twining feathers, brown lines at their back are bouquets of realistically drawn flowers in red, green, rose and white silk, and rose chenille.
place: label: made in
content: probably France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt, from the textile collection of Mrs. Abram Stevens Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1931-4-17-a/e
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Fragments of a dress
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: brocaded with silk and chenille thread
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (a): 127.5 x 55 cm (50 3/16 x 21 5/8 in.)