Waistcoat
Category
Costume
Date
1775 - 1785
Materials
Textile
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349012
Summary
Waistcoat made from champagne ribbed silk with a cream wool twill back. It is lined with cream silk twill facings and cream linen. Trimmed with embroidered flower garlands and running designs in pink silk and green sequins on the leading edges and hem of foreparts and pocket flaps. It fastens with 13 buttons embroidered in pink and green silks, silver sequins and purl. (male) Charles Wade Catalogue No.55 " Waistcoat. Cream silk corded and embroidered with coloured silks and sequins. Small wreaths of flowers and interlacing ribbons of roses silks and seqins. 1765 - 80." Bought from Mrs Solomon for £1.15.0d
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade