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Man's At-Home Robe (Banyan)Textile: 1700–1750; Robe: 1750–1760

Not on view
Knee-length silk damask coat in mint and forest green with an allover floral pattern, fitted bodice, and a column of small green buttons down the center front
Close-up detail of a silk damask garment in pale yellow-green, woven with a large-scale floral and foliage pattern in deeper sage green with pale blue highlights, trimmed with a vertical row of small fabric-covered dome buttons on each side.
Woven textile with two contrasting green areas: a dense, dark teal basketweave pattern at left and a lighter yellow-green warp-dominant weave at right, meeting in an irregular stepped vertical boundary.
Close-up of woven silk damask fabric with a large-scale botanical pattern of leaves and flowering stems in contrasting shades of green and gold, the design created through the interplay of matte and lustrous weave surfaces.
Title
Man's At-Home Robe (Banyan)
Place Made
Textile: China for the Western market; Robe: the Netherlands
Date Made
Textile: 1700–1750; Robe: 1750–1760
Medium
Silk satin with silk plain weave patterning (damassé) with silk thread covered buttons
Dimensions
Center back length: 50 1/4 in. (127.64 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Suzanne A. Saperstein and Michael and Ellen Michelson, with additional funding from the Costume Council, the Edgerton Foundation, Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer, Maureen H. Shapiro, Grace Tsao, and Lenore and Richard Wayne
Accession Number
M.2007.211.797
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Deux Siècles de Mode Européenne, 1700-1915. Paris: Arts Décoratifs; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books-Prestel, 2013.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books/Prestel, 2010.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Europäische Moden, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Prestel, 2012.