It is a glove amid lots of, exhibited in a window of the Dauphinois Museum in Grenoble, but it is a glove that has taken on a different dimension due to the fact Thursday. Amid the gloves that represent the know-how of the renowned Grenoble glove shop, up to the center of the 20th century, in the exhibition “Fait major. Quand Grenoble gantait le monde”, a white glove stands out with the point out “EIIR” as ” Elizabeth II Queen “. A glove that came, or almost so, from the coronation party of the Queen of England in June 1953.
An “authentic” copy.
“It is an fantastic pieceexplains Olivier Cogne, director of the Dauphinois Museum, at first manufactured by the Dents household, which is an English property but positioned in Grenoble, and this duplicate was produced at the similar time by the Perrin glove factory“It need to be explained that a pretty sturdy commercial connection experienced been solid about time involving the Grenoble players and the wealthy British.”For the great and straightforward rationaleexplains Olivier Cogne, that Grenoble gloves were being generally sold on the English industry […] especially from the 2nd empire […] and British producers have gone so considerably as to set up production web sites here“Elizabeth is not the only British” crowned head “to have been gloved” produced in Grenoble “as the exhibition also capabilities a duplicate of the glove of the one worn all through the coronation of her husband, Alexandra of Denmark, spouse of King Edward VII of England.
A symbolic glove of Grenoble know-how
Just one matter is apparent about the Grenoble origin of Elizabeth’s glove, it is “goatskin, explains Olivier Cogne, this high high quality content, really slender, very complicated to work and which was a specificity of the Grenoble glove“. The sleeve of this white glove,”testifies to a excellent do the job of embroidery, silver and gold threads, in silk jersey“. This glove is obvious, with all the others on display screen, until March 27 at the Musée Dauphinois in Grenoble.
– Laurent Gallien
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