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Japanese garment with front fastening of eight buttons and smooth-applied strip as sleeve of batiste with inserts of English embroidery; skirt front smooth, back loosely gathered as a train
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Girls' dress of batiste with English embroidery strips. Victorian: With two cuffs and a collar band. Model: Fitted and long bodice with a low waist at the front; but high at the back. Round neck. As sleeves only a single smoothly set strip, which overlaps from above. Front closure with eight buttons in a large split-only front smoothly set skirt with inserts, gathering and double, scalloped strip. The skirt is set loosely gathered at the back; in the line like a queue de Paris. Decoration: Inserts with flowers of six roundels and a heart composed. The scalloped strips have fairly open marguerites. Condition. Washed in 1979.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineJapon met voorsluiting met acht knopen en glad aangezette strook als mouw van batist met tussenzetsels van Engels borduurwerk; rok voor glad, achter ruim gerimpeld als queue. c. 1883 - c. 1885. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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