Coat
Category
Costume
Date
1775 - 1800
Materials
Textile
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349760
Summary
Coat - Made from beetroot silk velvet with a design of sequins and cuffs of cream silk ribbed with siver. It is lined with cream silk satin. The chest and shoulders are padded with cotton wadding and stiffenings of heavy unbleached canvas. The coat is richly embroidered with silver threads and sequins in a design of palm trees and foliage. It fastens with large flat buttons covered with silver foil, silver threads and paste jewels, 7 centre front and 2 copies on each cuff. There have been alterations. Possibly Indian. (male)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 11951 by Charles Paget Wade