Ball gown
Clothes for Women
Inventory number
2024.6.1.6ab.CW.DR.C1885.FR
Description
Fancy ball gown, incorporating 1730s ice blue brocaded satin. Comprising bodice with a deep curved front waist, cut high at the back with short tails, ruffled and gathered blue satin outside sleeves, the front skirt entirely of 18th-century brocade, pleated blue satin band to hem, long blue satin train to rear skirt.
Material
Brocaded satin
Origin
circa 1880 – 1895
France
Exhibition History
• 2024.06.22–2024.10.25. ‘Rose – the Manor flower. From the collection of Alexandre Vassiliev foundation.‘ Cultural center-museum of Suvalkija (Sūduva) (Paežeriai Manor), Vilkaviškis district, Lithuania.
