Collar

Object/Artifact

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Collar

Entry/Object ID

2000.10.47B

Description

Silk collar with silk embroidery floss, gold floss, gold lace, other lace. Three quarters of a circle; three layers of petal-like embroidered fabric, each bordered in black silk and white, gray, or gold lace. Backgrounds from inner layer out: white, black, white, blue. Embroidery in shades of blue and peach with gold ornamentation. On back, frogs of self cloth, with attached "petals." "Steel, Anglefield, 5th Gadstone."

Dimensions

Height

30-1/2 in

Width

36 in

Material

Silk

Provenance

Notes

See Sophie Steel textiles. Donor Anson Peckham was nephew of Sophie Steel. Steel (1870-1958) was born in Bethlehem, PA but grew up in Germantown. She later lived in England and France and was a student of Howard Pyle. She illustrated "Historic Dress in America."