Handkerchief
Unknown
1875–99 · cotton · Costume Institute
The late 19th century marked a period of excess ornament and dazzling ostentation in the decorative arts. This handkerchief with its profuse display of embroidered elements and frothy lace offers an example of the ornateness that was in vogue at the time. The development of machine-made production made this excess in presentation available to a wide range of consumers.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1875–99
- Medium
- cotton
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Costume Institute
- Credit line
- Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Antoinette Graves Goetz and Marie Graves Bullock in memory of their mother, Florence Christmas Eno Grave, and of their grandmother, Harriet Ch
