Northern Italian
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Black silk velvet and canary yellow silk satin collar and mitts, embroidered with quatrefoil and five-petaled flowers, foliate trails, and fruits in silver-wrapped thread and filé and polychrome silk floss, and lined in yellow satin, yellow taffeta, and brown taffeta. The collar with silver embroidery in padded satin stitch, cross stitch, and couching, with inset of yellow silk embroidered with irises, strawberries, peaches, and other flowers in polychrome silk floss worked in long-and-short stitch, stem stitch, French knots, and couching with silver padded satin stitch flourishes; edged in silver bobbin lace and lined in yellow silk taffeta; metal fastener at neck. The mitts with yellow satin cuffs embroidered with flowers, strawberries, and peaches; softly pointed top; and silver-embroidered buttons and braided loops. Edged in silver bobbin lace. Very good condition. Probably altered in the later 18th or 19th century.