Guimpe

Museum number:
7-7196
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
2103 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Guimpe. Materials: Silk, sequins, glass beads. Techniques: Net with chiffon sleeves, taffeta bodice; sequin, glass bead, taffeta covered half spheres as trim. Colors: White; black and silver sequins. Dimensions: 15 inches long, 14.5 inch sleeves. Remarks: Netting on sleeves deteriorated.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Europe
Verbatim coll. place:
Europe?
Culture or time period:
European
Collector:
Mrs. Edward M. Walsh
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Guimpes (neckwear)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Dimensions:
length 15 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Guimpe, accession number 7-7196, described as Guimpe. Materials: Silk, sequins, glass beads. Techniques: Net with chiffon sleeves, taffeta bodice; sequin, glass bead, taffeta covered half spheres as trim. Colors: White; black and silver sequins. Dimensions: 15 inches long, 14.5 inch sleeves. Remarks: Netting on sleeves deteriorated.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Guimpe, accession number 7-7196, described as Guimpe. Materials: Silk, sequins, glass beads. Techniques: Net with chiffon sleeves, taffeta bodice; sequin, glass bead, taffeta covered half spheres as trim. Colors: White; black and silver sequins. Dimensions: 15 inches long, 14.5 inch sleeves. Remarks: Netting on sleeves deteriorated.

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