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Woman's Stomacher1700-1750

Not on view
Fully opened folding fan with ivory or bone pierced sticks in scrollwork patterns and a cream paper leaf decorated with dense gold-printed motifs surrounding a small central vignette of costumed figures
Folding fan with pierced ivory sticks featuring delicate scrollwork cutwork, and leaf vanes painted with multiple pastoral scenes showing figures in 18th-century dress amid green landscapes, ruins, and rocky outcroppings, with gilded borders throughout.
Two triangular gold metallic lace pieces displayed flat; the left features an open bobbin-lace grid with tassel and medallion motifs and scalloped edging; the right shows dense needle-lace with scrolling floral and foliate appliqué on a sheer ground.
Triangular stomacher of needle lace with metallic gold and silver thread, featuring a central symmetrical design of elongated leaf-shaped medallions, floral rosettes, and tassel details; scalloped metal lace edging along the top, with ivory ribbon tabs along the lower sides and pointed hem.
Title
Woman's Stomacher
Place Made
France
Date Made
1700-1750
Medium
Silk satin with metallic-thread lace, silk and metallic-thread plain-weave appliqués, metallic-thread passementerie, and tassels
Dimensions
15 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (39.37 × 26.67 cm)
Credit Line
Mrs. Alice F. Schott Bequest
Accession Number
M.67.8.99
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.
  • Örmen, Catherine. L'Art de la Mode. Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2015.
  • 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.