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Man’s At-home Cap1725-1775

Not on view
Embroidered ivory silk cap with a peaked crown and scalloped brim, decorated with floral motifs in gold, pink, yellow, and blue silk and metallic thread
Three embroidered silk caps arranged on a white surface: a blue cap with silver and gold floral embroidery and lace trim at upper left; a green domed cap with multicolored floral embroidery and a green tassel at top right; and a cream cap with polychrome floral and foliate embroidery with metallic thread trim in the foreground.
Close-up detail of embroidered textile on cream woven ground, featuring a pink and brown flower at lower left, a sinuous yellow and green ribbon-like motif at center, and raised floral forms worked in gold and brown threads with varied stitching techniques including padded and couched metallic work.

Unknown, Man’s At-home Cap, 1725-1775, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Frederick Kingston, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Man’s At-home Cap
Place Made
Probably France
Date Made
1725-1775
Medium
Silk plain weave with supplementary warp-float patterning, and silk and metallic-thread embroidery
Dimensions
Overall: 6 3/4 x 10 3/8 x 9 3/4 in. (17.15 x 26.35 x 24.77 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Frederick Kingston
Accession Number
M.61.6
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Maeder, Edward et al.. An Elegant Art: Fashion & Fantasy in the Eighteenth Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983.
  • Kahlenberg, Mary Hunt. Fabric and Fashion: Twenty Years of Costume Council Gifts. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1974.
  • 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.
  • Thoisy-Dallem, Anne de. "La vieille robe de chambre de Diderot et les vêtements d'intérieur masculins au Siècle des lumières." La Revue des Musées de France: Revue du Louvre no.1 (2016): 66-75.