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Woman's Petticoat1725-1760

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Horizontal silk textile panel with marigold-yellow allover scrolling ground and a wide bottom border of symmetrical cartouches containing small chinoiserie garden scenes in polychrome embroidery
Silk embroidery on yellow ground with scrolling foliate pattern; central cartouche of curving acanthus scrolls topped by a vase frames two standing figures near a structure; smaller figural scenes at left and right margins with flowers and architectural elements.
Silk embroidery on yellow ground depicting two figures seated at a table in a garden setting, surrounded by bamboo, flowering plants, and a folding screen, with dense quilted stitching filling the background.
Embroidered textile panel with a central gold-yellow ground depicting a standing figure in patterned robes carrying a staff, accompanied by a long-necked bird amid stylized trees and foliage. Surrounding border of pink silk with silver metalwork couching, scrolling motifs, and green velvet leaf appliqués.
Silk embroidery panel with three figures in a garden scene on a golden yellow ground: a child, a woman in full skirts, and a robed figure holding a parasol, flanked by a flowering tree. Surrounding border features scrolling botanical motifs in pink, green, and metallic thread.
Silk embroidery on yellow ground depicting three figures in a garden setting; a seated figure in blue robes at left faces a standing woman carrying a basket alongside a small child, surrounded by flowering branches and pine trees rendered in blue, green, and pink thread with dense couched background stitching.
Silk embroidery panel with two standing figures facing each other across a small table, set against a golden yellow background beneath embroidered tree branches with leaves. Figures wear long robes with blue diamond-patterned details. Surrounding border features pink satin with metallic thread scrollwork and green leaf appliqué.
Title
Woman's Petticoat
Place Made
Italy
Date Made
1725-1760
Medium
Silk satin, quilted, with silk and metallic thread embroidery and silk satin appliqués
Dimensions
Center front length: 42 in. (106.68 cm)
Credit Line
Costume Council Fund
Accession Number
M.59.27.1
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.
  • Blanco F., José and Mary D. Doering, eds. Clothing and Fashion: American Fashion from Head to Toe, vol. 1, Pre-Colonial Times Through the American Revolution. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2016.