Dress sleeve, silk brocade
Date1780-1800
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.Mark(s)Handwritten 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."
1760-1770
1695-1730
1760-1765
ca. 1760-1780
1740-1755
1740-1755
19th or 20th century reproduction
1760-65
Ca. 1790
1765-1775
ca. 1750-1760 or reproduction