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Dress sleeve, silk brocade

Date1780-1800

OriginAmerica (sleeve) and Europe, France (textile)

DimensionsOL: 23 1/2"; OW: fabric at top of sleeve: 14"

Credit LineGift of Miss Mary Randolph Berkeley.

Object number1969-43

DescriptionDress sleeve: pink beige silk with 2 alternating brocaded ribbon-stripes in pattern of small bouquets and scattered rose buds, with brocading wefts in rose, pink, ivory, and green on cannele patterned ground. Wrist length with shaped elbow; overlapping placket with 2 buttonholes at wrist; lined throughout with natural linen (bias-cut). Selvedge: 1/2" corded green silk.
MarkingsHandwritten exhibition tag attached, "Sleeve of gown worn by Lady Spotswood, wife of General Alex'r Spottswood, Colonial Governor of Virginia, 1710 (or 1714)."
ProvenanceDonor is a Spotswood descendant, "one of my great-grandmothers was a Mary Randolph Spottswood Berkeley."