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Description: | Fashionably cut waistcoat from the end of the Eighteenth century. Woven silk with fawn ground sprigged with tiny black and orange bees alternating with large rust velvet leaf motifs encircling fawn floral sprigs. DB with straight CF and 10 yellow stitched button holes either side. Wide turned down revers, stitched in lace, upstanding collar. Lining and back of cream cotton, with remnants of 3 pairs of ties to adjust fit.
Probably a French silk.
Believed to have belonged to Sir Robert Strange (1721-1792).
Material: silk
1790s waistcoat silk detail
1790s waistcoat | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.70155 | Go to resource |
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