Black satin skirt with woven design. Fully lined with plain black satin. Seven vertical seams -- four gores in back with large scalloped hems. Front has four panels with straight hem. Pocket in back left.
Gathered white cotton triangle with 2-inch printed border of pink and gray geometric designs. ¼ -inch machine-stitched hem on two edges. Fabric is gathered and finished with a plain fabric band, hand-stitched on the reverse. 2 shell buttons, 3 inches apart, are sewn on one edge with corresponding buttonholes (hand finished) on facing edge.
Gathered white cotton triangle with 2-inch printed border of pink and gray geometric designs. ¼ -inch machine-stitched hem on two edges. Fabric is gathered and finished with a plain fabric band, hand-stitched on the reverse. 2 shell buttons, 3 inches apart, are sewn on one edge with corresponding buttonholes (hand finished) on facing edge.
Woman's long-sleeved heavy whit cotton nightgown with yoke of decorative stitching (may have been light blue) and eyelet.
Sleeves: set-in and gathered with tine corded edge. 20-inch lonf from shoulder to cuff. Top cuff stitched with floral design, scalloped edge. Cuff opening is tiny (6 inches). Raw edge of sleeve seam is hand overcast.
Front opening is a 17-inch long placket with 4 white 4-holed round shell buttons.
Round neck opening with stitched designs on a yoke that tapers in the center front (10 inches long). 9 one-quarter inch pintuck seams on both sides run to the hem of the skirt.
Back decoratively-stitched yoke tapers to a point on center back 8 inches from the neck edge with a band of decorative stitching. A band of tiny eyelet flowers with a scalloped edge is sewn around the inside edge of the neck opening.
White woven lengthwise piece (both side edges are selvedges). Beautifully embroidered (6" long x 7" wide) white work monogram sewn in white cotton thread with satin, stem, buttonhole stitches and French knots. 2 inches below, trimmed with overcast. self-fringe. 1-inch wide drawnwork (bundles of 6 threads wrapped in center). 1/2" from edge is a 1/2-inch wide drawnwork stripe with single thread woven alternately by 2 central threads.
Center length (exposed) and another lengthwise fold are brown. Significant hole to one side of monogram. 2 other holes. Self-fringe edge is worn with fabric fraying in 2 places.
Single looped finger-hold handle. On exterior: gold band around base edge. Fine gold branch, 3/4" from top, alternating around the cup with 7 3-leaf clusters alternating above and below the branch.
Top scalloped rim painted gold. The 1-inch tan band circling the interio edge is embellished with gold flourishes on both upper and lower edges. Gold design in center bottom of cup bowl. Handle also is decorated in gold.
(6 of 8 cups in good condition) 89.102.15 is fair: visible crack from along handle to base of cup. Break on side of cup has been glued, but chip out of rim.
89.102.20 is fragile. Large crack with opening from rim running almost 3" to base of handle.
