Pair of Gloves

England

Date

1601/50

Medium

Leather, cut, pricked and slashed; silk satin appliqué; gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk couching; gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk woven fringe; balls covered with gilt-metal-wrapped-silk; ribbons of silk, plain weave edged with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk woven fringe; lining: silk, plain weave; interlining: linen, plain weave

Dimensions

a: 30 × 14.6 cm (11 3/4 × 5 3/4 in.); b: 28 × 14.2 cm (11 × 5 5/8 in.)

Department

Textiles

Credit line

Purchased with funds provided by Frances G. Lee Foundation