Dark blue satin ground with small-scale, all-over repeat of scrolling vine with five-petalled flowers, in gold. Fragment cut on bias, edges turned over, as if for collar. Starched or stiffened on back.
Credit: Gift of Miss Beatrice Kates
19th century
Medium: silk, metal Technique: compound satin
1940-4-12
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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