Collar

Object/Artifact

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Collar

Entry/Object ID

2000.10.47H

Description

Silk collar with silk embroidery floss, gold floss. Piece of collar, teal background, black border and strip; embroidery is floral, in peach, coral, yellow-green, brown, outlined in gold. Asia? China?

Dimensions

Height

6-3/8 in

Width

11 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."