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Dress

1760s
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Western chinoiserie is often a compound of exotic elements, not all indigenous to China. This eighteenth-century dress exhibits such multiple allusions, but they have been assimilated by the technology and aesthetic of Lyonnais manufacture. Palm trees signify the foreign, and the pagoda-inspired follies—Eastern architecture transplanted to the West—are posts with tented swags.

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Object Information
  • Title: Dress
  • Date: 1760s
  • Culture: French
  • Medium: silk, metal thread
  • Credit Line: Gift of Fédération de la Soierie, 1950
  • Object Number: 50.168.2a, b
  • Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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