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Hair comb
Unknown1830
Museu da Moda Brasileira
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Turtle comb with eight teeth. Top decorated with bows, garlands, stars, lyres, leaves, laurel wreaths and amphorae. It presents seven medallions in the superior frieze and one in the first central frieze, with a star. The lower frieze is decorated with stylized acanthus leaves.
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Details
- Title: Hair comb
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: 1830
- Location Created: France, Paris
- Physical Dimensions: A 26.0 X L 27.0 cm
- Provenance: Mantilla comb. Spanish comb type. Turtle comb that could have been up to 30 cm in height, some finely encrusted in gold. Its function was to hold the mantilla or headdress. The mantilla comb became very fashionable at the same time as the puff sleeve dresses.
- Type: Hair comb
- Photographer: Caique Bellato
- Rights: GOVERNO DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO / SECRETARIA DE ESTADO DE CULTURA / FUNDAÇÃO ANITA MANTUANO DE ARTES DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO – FUNARJ / CASA DA MARQUESA DE SANTOS - MUSEU DA MODA BRASILEIRA
- Medium: Turtle, notch
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