Dress panel
Unknown Maker
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.
Credit: Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf Esq. in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
1780-89
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
1950-121-57
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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