Description
Exceptional French dress in taffeta Chiné à la branche, Rococo style, Louis XV period, circa 1765. Tender pink silk taffeta decorated with an ikate pattern with a large ratio of design called "Chiné à la branche" featuring flowerbeds and branches with rose embedded in a twist of ribbons in hatch or lilac foliage. Coat falbalas pleated with edges curved and pinched by the middle. Straight half-sleeves probably ended in "pagoda" with flounce of the same fabric. Full petticoat adorned with a wide flounce on the middle and a narrow band of pleated falbala on the hem with yoke in the back in Indian from the Wetter factory (in Orange) with brown floral pattern. Dimensions: Coat: 155 cm high Shoulder width: 23 cm Petticoat: 77 cm high Condition: superb for the silk probably coming from the Grande Fabrique (Lyon). Width of weaving: 57 cm. Some modifications of the waist and missing pagoda ruffles. Bibliography: Exhibition Catalogue, Costumes du Comtat Venaissin - 18th and 19th century, at the Chapelle des Pénitents Blancs de Pernes-les-Fontaines, 2012, Ed. Conservatoire du Costume Comtadin.
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Exceptional French dress in taffeta Chiné à la branche, Rococo style, Louis XV period, circa 1765. Tender pink silk taffeta decorated with an ikate pattern with a large ratio of design called "Chiné à la branche" featuring flowerbeds and branches with rose embedded in a twist of ribbons in hatch or lilac foliage. Coat falbalas pleated with edges curved and pinched by the middle. Straight half-sleeves probably ended in "pagoda" with flounce of the same fabric. Full petticoat adorned with a wide flounce on the middle and a narrow band of pleated falbala on the hem with yoke in the back in Indian from the Wetter factory (in Orange) with brown floral pattern. Dimensions: Coat: 155 cm high Shoulder width: 23 cm Petticoat: 77 cm high Condition: superb for the silk probably coming from the Grande Fabrique (Lyon). Width of weaving: 57 cm. Some modifications of the waist and missing pagoda ruffles. Bibliography: Exhibition Catalogue, Costumes du Comtat Venaissin - 18th and 19th century, at the Chapelle des Pénitents Blancs de Pernes-les-Fontaines, 2012, Ed. Conservatoire du Costume Comtadin.
