Category
Costume
Date
1775 - 1800
Materials
Cotton, Linen
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1350100
Summary
Pocket - Made from cream cotton dimity and lined with cream linen. It is embroidered in wool with a vase with a rose and other flowers and a trailing stem with pinks, other flowers and leaves. Cf. Nancy Bradfield 'Costume in Detail' Pg.34 (female)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade
References
Bradfield, 1968: Nancy Bradfield, Costume in Detail, 1730-1930, Harrop, London, 1968, p.34. Burman and Fennetaux 2019: Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux, The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women's Lives, New Haven and London 2019, p.72, fig.60c