Parasol

Stern Brothers

1876 · silk, wood, glass, metal · Costume Institute

This parasol is an early artifact of the Stern Brothers store at their original address in the prestigious Ladies Mile, where the finest ladies commodities in New York were sold. The coordination of colors is particularly effective, and the green and purple of the canopy is repeated in the color of the glass stones in the handle.

Artist

Stern Brothers

Date

1876

Medium

silk, wood, glass, metal

Culture

American

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Genevieve Doherty in memory of Mrs. John Henry, 1964