Beautiful handembroidered very fine linen young child's dress

This is such a beautiful dress, not just in the making but the quality of the fine linen fabric, , and the embroidery, which is a design of stylised oak leaves and acorns. This is probably from around 1900-1910, and has been entirely handmade, with exquisite ruching at the waistine and tiny pintucked flounces on the skirt. It has a couple of very small marks and some minor damage, but given its age and delicacy it is in excellent condition. I think it would be for around a 5-year old child - it measures 35cm from armpit to armpit lying flat and is 62cm long.

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