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Piece from a disassembled dress (five pieces)
Textile lengths and fragments (group of five)
Piece from a disassembled dress (five pieces)
English, used in America
last quarter of the 18th century
Place of Manufacture: England; Place of Use: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/Technique
Silk plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and supplementary warp stripes
Dimensions
Other (49.920e): 104.1 x 49.4 cm (41 x 19 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Emily Welles Robbins (Mrs. Harry Pelham Robbins) and the Hon. Sumner Welles, in memory of Georgiana Welles Sargent
Accession Number49.920a-e
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CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionFive pieces of pink striped length of silk that was once part of a woman's dress (b, c, and e are lengths); pink ground with white stripes and bright pink and purple floral sprigs; four bright pink stripes in selvedges; evidence of side seams, pleats, and hems
ProvenanceInherited by Miss Georgiana Welles Sargent (born 1858) of New York City; Gift of Emily Welles Robbins (Mrs. Harry Pelham Robbins) and the Hon. Sumner Welles, in memory of Georgiana Welles Sargent, to MFA, 1949