Collar

Object/Artifact

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Collar

Entry/Object ID

2000.10.47K

Description

Silk, silk gloss, gold floss. Embroidered section, probably of collar. Five petal-like pieces attached to a black silk strip. all "petals" are red silk bordered in black silk. Embroidered in blues, white, and brown, and outlined in gold. China?

Dimensions

Height

6-1/2 in

Width

15-1/2 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."