Collar

Object/Artifact

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Collar

Entry/Object ID

2000.10.47C

Description

Silk collar with silk floss, gold floss; beads, sequins, metal discs, silk braid. Collar with "bib" section, which has three lobes; two fish are attached below; below this later are tassels. One part of "bib" has tassel attached; it looks as though an identical one is missing. Colors are greens, blues, ivory, peach, and rust. Tassels are rusty red. Beads, braid, macrame, and metal disks ornament the tassels. Sequins form scales on fish. China?

Dimensions

Height

17-1/2 in

Width

14 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."