Cloak

Museum number:
7-7213
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3736 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Description: Opera cloak; Materials: silk, cotton. Techniques: satin, satin stitch embroidery, sewing, tassels. Colors: peach, pale yellow, pale orange, pink, greens, white, brown. Dimensions: 50 inches long center back. Remarks: Opera cloak of silk satin in peach lined with pale yellow. Wide flair, deep low armhole with full wide sleeve with embroidered cuff. Neckline trimmed with two tassels and bands of embroidered shaping into pointed back detail ending in tassel. Satin stitch embroidery in circular, Art Nouveau designs in pale orange et cetera above. Same yarns make tassels. Hooked front closing. Label: LIBERTY OF LONDON, PARIS. Inside pocket, front stains, good condition.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
England
Verbatim coll. place:
ENGLAND
Culture or time period:
English
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cloaks
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)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Cloak, accession number 7-7213, described as Description: Opera cloak; Materials: silk, cotton. Techniques: satin, satin stitch embroidery, sewing, tassels. Colors: peach, pale yellow, pale orange, pink, greens, white, brown. Dimensions: 50 inches long center back. Remarks: Opera cloak of silk satin in peach lined with pale yellow. Wide flair, deep low armhole with full wide sleeve with embroidered cuff. Neckline trimmed with two tassels and bands of embroidered shaping into pointed back detail ending in tassel. Satin stitch embroidery in circular, Art Nouveau designs in pale orange et cetera above. Same yarns make tassels. Hooked front closing. Label: LIBERTY OF LONDON, PARIS. Inside pocket, front stains, good condition.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Cloak, accession number 7-7213, described as Description: Opera cloak; Materials: silk, cotton. Techniques: satin, satin stitch embroidery, sewing, tassels. Colors: peach, pale yellow, pale orange, pink, greens, white, brown. Dimensions: 50 inches long center back. Remarks: Opera cloak of silk satin in peach lined with pale yellow. Wide flair, deep low armhole with full wide sleeve with embroidered cuff. Neckline trimmed with two tassels and bands of embroidered shaping into pointed back detail ending in tassel. Satin stitch embroidery in circular, Art Nouveau designs in pale orange et cetera above. Same yarns make tassels. Hooked front closing. Label: LIBERTY OF LONDON, PARIS. Inside pocket, front stains, good condition.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Cloak, accession number 7-7213, described as Description: Opera cloak; Materials: silk, cotton. Techniques: satin, satin stitch embroidery, sewing, tassels. Colors: peach, pale yellow, pale orange, pink, greens, white, brown. Dimensions: 50 inches long center back. Remarks: Opera cloak of silk satin in peach lined with pale yellow. Wide flair, deep low armhole with full wide sleeve with embroidered cuff. Neckline trimmed with two tassels and bands of embroidered shaping into pointed back detail ending in tassel. Satin stitch embroidery in circular, Art Nouveau designs in pale orange et cetera above. Same yarns make tassels. Hooked front closing. Label: LIBERTY OF LONDON, PARIS. Inside pocket, front stains, good condition.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cloak, accession number 7-7213, described as Description: Opera cloak; Materials: silk, cotton. Techniques: satin, satin stitch embroidery, sewing, tassels. Colors: peach, pale yellow, pale orange, pink, greens, white, brown. Dimensions: 50 inches long center back. Remarks: Opera cloak of silk satin in peach lined with pale yellow. Wide flair, deep low armhole with full wide sleeve with embroidered cuff. Neckline trimmed with two tassels and bands of embroidered shaping into pointed back detail ending in tassel. Satin stitch embroidery in circular, Art Nouveau designs in pale orange et cetera above. Same yarns make tassels. Hooked front closing. Label: LIBERTY OF LONDON, PARIS. Inside pocket, front stains, good condition.

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