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Ten textile fragments

about 1848
Place of Manufactureprobably France or England
Place of UseBoston, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/TechniqueSilk satin damask (or possibly plain weave with continuous supplementary patterning satin warp)
DimensionsOverall: 21 x 18.4 cm (8 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.)
Overall: 8.9 x 12.7 cm (3 1/2 x 5 in.)
Overall: 17.1 x 15.9 cm (6 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.)
Overall: 19.1 x 7 cm (7 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)
Overall: 21.6 x 21.6 cm (8 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.)
Overall: 15.2 x 15.9 cm (6 x 6 1/4 in.)
Overall: 10.2 x 13.2 cm (4 x 5 3/16 in.)
Overall: 18.1 x 12.7 cm (7 1/8 x 5 in.)
Overall: 22.2 x 14 cm (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.)
Overall: 17.8 x 17.8 cm (7 x 7 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Asa Gray
Accession number98.63a-j
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCostumes
ProvenanceFrom dress worn by the donor at her wedding reception, May 1848; Mrs. Asa Gray (Jane Lathrop Loring, 1821-1909); Gift to the MFA, April, 1898
Woman's evening dress
Arnold Scaasi
Fall 1969
Textile fragment
early 18th century
second quarter of the 19th century
Textile length
late 17th century
late 17th–early 18th century
Ribbon
about 1830
Group shot: 2010.697.1-2
Bergdorf Goodman
1970s–1980s
about 1875
Woman's dress
about 1830; altered about 1893