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Woman's Bodice Front1730-1760

Not on view
Embroidered ivory bodice or stays with structured silhouette, metallic laced front closure, and dense multicolored floral embroidery across the lower body and wide hip extensions
Embroidered textile detail on cream fabric, featuring a large stylized flower in shaded blue and deep burgundy at center, surrounded by green stems, leaves, pink rosebuds, and a yellow-green bud; background filled with a diamond grid pattern in small seed stitches.
Embroidered textile with a large yellow and rust-brown floral bloom at center, worked in dense satin stitch, with green leaves below and smaller multicolored flowers at the edges, all on a cream ground stitched with a diagonal lattice pattern.
Embroidered textile fragment with cream ground stitched in a diamond quilting pattern, densely worked with wool crewelwork vines, leaves, and stylized flowers in green, red-brown, gold, blue, and pink.
Title
Woman's Bodice Front
Place Made
England or India for the Western market
Date Made
1730-1760
Medium
Linen plain weave with silk and metallic-thread embroidery
Dimensions
19 3/4 × 14 5/8 in. (50.17 × 37.15 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.2007.211.840
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.