Triangular breast piece of light green silk, decorated with silver gauze with floral appliqués of multicolored chenille, Triangular breast piece of light green satin lined with natural linen. Decorated at the front with a mesh-like weave of silver thread in flat weave on which appliques in orange, pink, white and yellow chenille (flowers) with green leaves of chenille. Decoration: at the top in the middle of an applique of a flower in orange, cream, blue and green silk and silver thread in interlocking stitch. The flower has a brown beige stem and green, beige, blue with pink, silver and light
Triangular breast piece of light green silk, decorated with silver gauze with floral appliqués of multicolored chenille, Triangular breast piece of light green satin lined with natural linen. Decorated at the front with a mesh-like weave of silver thread in flat weave on which appliques in orange, pink, white and yellow chenille (flowers) with green leaves of chenille. Decoration: at the top in the middle of an applique of a flower in orange, cream, blue and green silk and silver thread in interlocking stitch. The flower has a brown beige stem and green, beige, blue with pink, silver and light and dark green leaves. On both sides of the flowers, this paper is wrapped with strips of silver wire wrapped around a silk core. Under the floral appliqué a V-shaped ornament of loosely woven band of silver thread around a silk core (2 cm wide). Below is a symmetrical ornament with bows in the middle and floral chenille appliques on either side. The devant-de-gorge ends in a heart-shaped point with pink and green chenille. The yellow is trimmed with a border of thick paper ( cm) wrapped in silver thread with a silk core and a silver fringe. Originally five sides of cm flaps on either side, with which the eve-de-gorge was pinned to the frock., anonymous, Netherlands, c. 1750 - c. 1775, geheel, voering, gaas, applique, versteviging, l cm × w cm
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