Lot Essay
See note for lot 279
Details
TWO EMBROIDERED SILK SKIRTS
LATE 19TH CENTURY
The first a pale pink summer-weave skirt, the silk woven with peony reserved on a chevron-pattern ground, worked with panels of dense blossoming flowers growing from stylized rockwork within a shaped brocade surround reserved on a black ground worked with couched gold thread depicting wheat and other plants--41 1/8in. (104.3cm.) long; the second pale mauve in color, the silk woven with butterfly and flower roundels and densely embroidered with panels of bright green peony and butterflies, with strands of flowers along the pleats, within blue, embroidered borders and black trim--36¾in. (93.3cm.) long (2)
LATE 19TH CENTURY
The first a pale pink summer-weave skirt, the silk woven with peony reserved on a chevron-pattern ground, worked with panels of dense blossoming flowers growing from stylized rockwork within a shaped brocade surround reserved on a black ground worked with couched gold thread depicting wheat and other plants--41 1/8in. (104.3cm.) long; the second pale mauve in color, the silk woven with butterfly and flower roundels and densely embroidered with panels of bright green peony and butterflies, with strands of flowers along the pleats, within blue, embroidered borders and black trim--36¾in. (93.3cm.) long (2)
Provenance
Alene von Harringa (the second skirt)
Further details
See illustration of one