Nightcap
Category
Costume
Date
1700 - 1720
Materials
Silk, silver,metal thread
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1348949
Summary
Cap; Nightcap - Medici crimson silk velvet. Interlining wool, lining black silk. Cuff lined with old rose coloured twilled silk. Made in two sections gathered at top. Deep, shaped cuff. Cuff embroidered in silver thread in clumsy design. Silver thread tassel at top.
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade