Nightcap
Category
Costume
Date
1700 - 1720
Materials
Silk
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1348948
Summary
Cap; Nightcap - Sky grey finely-ribbed silk. Lined with begonia grosgrain. High pointed cap, cut in two pieces with wide shaped cuff edged with silver lace. Cap embroidered with sprigs of naturalistic flowers in polychrome silks and silver thread. Wade catalogue number B.7. "Cap of blue silk, richly embroidered with colours and silver thread. Lined with rose silk (a similar one in S.K.M. at £3.10.0). Italian. Late 17th Century." Bought from Mrs Solomon for £1.15.0
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade