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A square kerchief of white silk gauze
French
18th century
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Silk; Embroidered
Dimensions
77.5 x 76 cm (30 1/2 x 29 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Eastman
Accession Number52.1809
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
Description(now much spotted with brown), designed to be worn folded with point down the back, two sides embroidered with silver metal thread and polychrome silks in solidly worked border design of closely massed blossoms and leaves, narrow silver looped fringe sewn in scallops on edges below embroidered border, gauze tender and cracked; backed with transparo at M.F.A.