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A bodice panel of ivory linen from a lady's embroidered jacket, worked with curling gilt thread tendrils with pea pods, pansies, fruit, butterflies, dragonflies and caterpillars, English, circa 1620-30 -

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A bodice panel of ivory linen from a lady's embroidered jacket, worked with curling gilt thread tendrils with pea pods, pansies, fruit, butterflies, dragonflies and caterpillars, English, circa 1620-30
Price Realized
(Set Currency)
  • £5,400
  • ($10,330)
  • Price includes buyer's premium
Estimate
    £5,000 - £8,000
  • ($9,565 - $15,304)

Sale Information

Sale 5572
COSTUME AND TEXTILES
15 March 2005
London, South Kensington





Lot Description

A bodice panel of ivory linen from a lady's embroidered jacket, worked with curling gilt thread tendrils with pea pods, pansies, fruit, butterflies, dragonflies and caterpillars, English, circa 1620-30
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Special Notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Notes

Unstructured jackets of linen embroidered in this manner were particularly fashionable in England between 1600 and the late 1630s. Many Englishwomen were painted wearing such bodices. See portrait by Marcus Gheeraerts of Margaret Layton and her bodice in the Victoria & Albert Museum, dated around 1610.