Dress
Unknown
1760s · silk, metal thread · Costume Institute
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.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1760s
- Medium
- silk, metal thread
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Costume Institute
- Credit line
- Gift of Fédération de la Soirie, 1950
