This dress was probably worn by Martha Ann Bush Cleveland of Brunswick, Maine, for her wedding. 

The sleeves are in a modified leg-o-mutton style-in vogue from 1837 to 1841-in which the fullness is above the elbow rather than near the shoulder.

The simple bell-shaped skirt is made up of eight panels with a wide border of French motifs depicting a basket of flowers and a vase. The main part of the fabric is decorated in a Chinese-inspired design of a meander embedded with eight Buddhist auspicious symbols: wheel of the law, lotus blossom, conch shell, umbrella, canopy, vase, pair of fish, and endless knot.

Probably Martha Ann Bush Chandler, née Cleveland (1812-1881), Brunswick, Maine.{1} (Beverley Birks), New York, New York; purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art (2003.81).

{1} Information from Beverley Birks based on a note found with the dress. It is assumed that she wore it at her marriage in 1837 to Boston attorney, Peleg Whitman Chandler, a Bowdoin College graduate.