Womenswear gloves

GCT 2017.14

Description

A pair of womenswear gloves, in chestnut-brown snakeskin and leather; wrist length (button length 2), with snakeskin back, leather palm, handsewn throughout, bound vent on palm at wrist, Boulton thumb, quirks and fourchettes.

Glove Details

Date:

1930-1939: Approximate date

Materials:

LEATHER, SNAKESKIN

Measurements:

Glove size: 6½

Techniques:

Unknown

Designer / Manufacturer / Retailer

Glovemaker

Gallery

Associations

Historical Associations:

Unknown

Association Type:

Provenance

Historical Association notes:

Vendor Mrs Burch wrote to Douglas Sweet about the provenance of this pair of gloves: Mrs Burch was from Czechoslovakia, and her parents died in a concentration camp during the Second World War. Mrs Burch noted that this pair of gloves was one of many that were rescued and kept for the family by the cooks and one of the maids.