Canopy
Category
Costume
Date
1760 - 1769
Materials
Silk
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1348958
Summary
Canopy - Cream ribbed silk, with lace ribbon design brocaded with flowers, leaves and stems in silver thread, green, crimson and cinnamon silk. Possibly French or Italian brocade. Deeply scalloped edge lined with rose silk. Two semi-circules of fabric joined along selvedge. Border much pieced and added to. Deeply scalloped edge. Scallops edged with gilt braid, forming a rounded fringe. On the bottom and top of each scallop 3 hanging gilt tassels.
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade