Glove

Pair of gauntlet gloves (goes with C427) of soft dark cream kid or lamb skin dressed flesh-side out. Gauntlets, cut separately, have straight wrist band and six square-ended tabs lined with deep pink taffeta; outside covered with purple satin and embroidered with floss silks, silver and silver-gilt thread, and purl in long and short, satin and stem stitches, with laid and couched work, partially padded. Wrist bands decorated with elongated S-shapes with butterfly-like motifs where they join small floral sprigs. Tabs are decorated, front and back alike, with upright sprigs of pansy and marigold (?) and bunch of small-headed flowers. Side openings, edges of tabs and wrists trimmed with vandyked silver and silver-gilt bobbin lace (20 mm deep) originally hung with spangles. Remains of running stitches in pink silk down seam extensions on backs of gloves down thumb and round its base may have secured decorative braid or lace, or may have been simple lines of decoration.