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Dress

Collection Type

  • Clothing and accessories

Date

1830s

GUSN

GUSN-5728

Description

Sheer white, elaborately embroidered--bodice and puffed sleeves embroidered with flowers set inside diamonds; eyelet waistband with floral garland; skirt--floral garlands--horizontal rows increasing in size at hems, with net inserts; scalloped eyelet hem; floral sprigs embroidered around hem.

Details

Descriptive Terms

dresses (garments)
cotton (textile)
embroidering
Dress
Dress

Associated Building

Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Credit Line

Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman

Accession Number

1969.5806

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