Tailcoat
Category
Costume
Date
1800 - 1825
Materials
Textile
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349505.1
Summary
Coat; Tailcoat - Part of a tailcoat and waistcoat made from black napped wool with black wool tabby facings and skirts, black silk twill sleeves and back. The inside of the chest is padded. The coat is decorated with green silk embroidery in satin and stem stitch in a design of leaves on stems and oval fruits. It fastens with hook and eye and buttons . Could be German. Similar to SNO.TC.805. (male) Wade Catalogue number A.14 'COAT of black cloth, high collar - all embroidered silk in shades of green' Bought for £2.10.0 (with matching waistcoat) from an unknown person.
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade