Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Robe of red voided velvet with yellow satin ground. Design of frets, peonies and butterflies. Sleeve bands of red voided velvet peony and butterfly design on blue satin ground. Edging on neck and sleeve edges of black satin. Lined in blue cotton.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1860
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt, from the textile collection of Mrs. Abram Stevens Hewitt
- Medium
- Medium: silk Technique: supplementary warp pile (velvet) in satin ground
- Dimensions
- H x W: 113 x 128.3 cm (44 1/2 x 50 1/2 in.)
- Type
- costume & accessories
- Woman's robe
