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Description: | Green silk satin, woven with flowers and foliage motifs in cut and uncut velvet; back brown twilled cotton, lined throughout brown cotton. V-neck with broad curved turn-down collar in two sections faced dark blue twilled silk; fronts in one shaped section each side centre opening fastening four covered buttons and worked buttonholes, padding from shoulder round armhole, narrow section red leather at inside waist edge; large motifs on front sections, small motifs down collar fronts. Back in one section each side centre seam, additional strips in each side seam, remains of two pairs of brown tapes above waist; armholes bound green cotton (very worn); back lining inscribed "______Lees Esq" (donor's grandfather) and in later hand "Lees".
Technique: woven
Technique: embroidering
Material: silk
Material: satin
Material: cotton
waistcoat, 1845 = 1855, (1970.85). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.7406 | Go to resource |
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