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Clothing panels
French
19th century
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Embroidery
Dimensions
22.5 x 35 cm (8 7/8 x 13 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
Accession Number44.312a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionClothing panels; possibly from a woman's stomacher. On each panel a wheat sheaf of metal foil with paste insets from which branches and other floral motives symmetrically radiate. Spangles, metal coils, paste insets, and metal foil on a shite moiré silk ground. A zig-zaf line metal coils and spangles runs lengthwise acroos the top and bottom of each panel. Missing coils, bent foil; the ground is soiled and worn in spots.