Dress panel
date: label: Date
content: 1780–89
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Long shaped panel from the left side of a robe. Pale blue satin embroidered in colored silks with accents of brilliants and paper roses. Parts of the design are outlined using white feathers. Overall pattern is garlands gathering clusters of small flowers. Appliquéd border of white satin embroidered in an imbricated pattern with a diamond-shape drop in each scale.
place: label: made in
content: 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 Richard C. Greenleaf Esq. in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1950-121-57
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Dress panel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, silk chenille, silk-wrapped corrugated strips of flat metal, silk-wrapped wire coils, feathers, brilliants, paper Technique: embroidery on 8-harness satin using satin, stem and couching stitches, 5-harness satin appliqué
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 133 x 46 cm (52 3/8 x 18 1/8 in.)