Cap Front View
FIDM MUSEUM & GALLERIES
Los Angeles, United States
Cream lace bonnet with lace and ribbon pom-pom and puffed crown; small, close-fitting unstructured bonnet of novelty striped silk satin fabric; brim edged in ruched cream satin ribbon; same ruching delineates separation between brim and crown; brim covered in cream tulle with embroidered dots; round pom-pom of scalloped cream lace and one-eighth inch satin ribbon with raised edge, applied to proper left top of brim; top of crown features applied pom-pom of one-quarter inch matching satin ribbon, encapsulated by puff of dotted tulle, gathered at front and back of crown; back of crown covered in same dotted lace with embroidered floral motif; bow of wide satin ribbon with raised edges; one inch matching satin ribbon stitched to interior of brim to form ties; self-fabric lining with reinforcements in plain silk at back of crown and center back neckline.
Label: none
Date: c. 1818
- Title: Cap Front View
- Date Created: 1816/1820
- Location Created: Europe
- Physical Dimensions: H: 8"
- Provenance: Museum Purchase
- Type: Cap
- Photographer: Brian Sanderson
- Rights: © FIDM Museum & Library, Inc. Image made available for limited non-commercial, educational, and personal use only, or for fair use as defined in the United States copyright laws. Users must cite the author and source of the image as they would material from any printed work, and the citations should include the URL “www.fidmmuseum.org”. For publication or press requests, visit http://www.fidmmuseum.org/about/rights-and-reproductions/ or email imagerights@FIDMmuseum.org.
- Medium: Silk faille, silk netting, silk bobbin lace and silk ribbon
- Object ID: 2008.5.52
- Bibliographic References: Kevin L. Jones and Christina M Johnson. FABULOUS! Ten Years of FIDM Museum Acquisitions, 2000-2010. Los Angeles: FIDM Museum Publications, 2010.
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