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Woman's dress and coat [dress]
Serbian
19th century
Object Place: Serbia
Medium/Technique
Silk; appliquéd, weaving
Dimensions
103 cm (40 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Gardiner H. Fiske
Accession Number55.446a
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
Description[One part of a] Woman's dress and coat (said to have been worn together). Dress: red satin (later replacement) with gold-braided pinkish-red satin appliqued to front and shoulders; white cotton sleeves, narrow stripes of white silk and stylized plants, birds, and animals; woven with red, pink, purple, orange, yellow, green, and blue cotton and some silk; heavy band of red and silver weaving edged with scallops of silver and blue beads, sewed on bottom; in poor condition. Coat: red broad-cloth, hanging sleeves, slit pockets, fitted waist and circular skirt, ornamented with gold braid, upper part lined with badly stained light cotton, lower part lined with printed cotton, floral design. *white silk.
ProvenanceGiven to donor in 1916 by Mrs. Slavko Grouitch, wife of Serbian ambassador to the United States.