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Woman's jacket
French
about 1908
Object Place: Paris, France
Medium/Technique
Silk and linen plain weave ground, embroidered wth silk, and trimmed with silk plain weave ribbon, and lined with silk plain weave.
Dimensions
Center back: 43.2 cm (17 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Barbara Rowe de Marneffe
Accession Number2008.1344
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionShort jacket of white silk/linen, embroidered with blue silk/linen yarns in dense floral pattern, small collar trimmed with dark blue grosgrain ribbon. Short, wide sleeves split and turned back with blue and white covered buttons. Belt of dark blue grosgrain ribbon, held by eight blue silk wrapped belt loops. White silk plain weave lining. Center back woven label "Paquin/Rue de la Paix. 3/Paris-London."
ProvenanceBefore 1989, collection of May Cassard Baldwin; by 1989, by descent to Florence Cassard Rowe (d. 1989); 1989, by inheritance to her daughter Barbara Rowe de Marneffe, MA; gift of de Marneffe to MFA (November 19, 2008)