Collar

Unknown

1830–50 · cotton · Costume Institute

This collar has a particularly detailed and unusual design motif. The complex embroidery and the lotus form taken from the Egyptian design vocabulary sets it apart from the usual.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1830–50

Medium

cotton

Culture

European

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York, 1978