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Title: Royal and historic gloves and shoes
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Redfern, William Beales
Subjects: Gloves Footwear
Publisher: London : Methuen & Co.
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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may be described as esthetic. The insides of the gauntlets are lined with red silk. From thebeautiful embroidered work, and from the whole character of thegloves, they may certainly be supposed to have belonged to a royalpersonage. They are in excellent preservation, and are carefully treasured bytheir owner, Alfred de la Fontaine, Esqr. 32 GLOVES AND SHOES PLATE XX EARLY SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY GLOVES A N unusual and singular pair of gloves of leather, the backseams of the fingers being stitched with gold thread ; thegauntlets are very deep and are covered with alternatebands of red satin and gold-thread ribbon-lace, with an edging ofsilver tinsel, and fringed with spangled gold thread. The total length of the gloves is 17 inches. King James I.gave these gauntleted gloves to Sir Edward Denny, Kt. (afterwardsEarl of Norwich), who, as Sheriff of Hertfordshire, received theKing during his progress from Scotland to London. Presented by Sir Edward Denny, Bart., to the South KensingtonMuseum.
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