Beaded Appliqué Panel for Bodice
1884-1909
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Beaded Appliqué Panel for Bodice
1884-1909
Physical Qualities
Cotton net, glass beads attached with cotton threads, 24 7/8 x 14 3/8 in. (63.2 x 36.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Merry Gladding Highby, Baltimore
Object Number
2010.25
Panel of beaded design in black glass beads of floral and foliate motifs worked on a black machine-made cotton net ground with hexagonal grid. The panel consists of two sections in mirror image shaped to conform to the front of a woman's jacket or dress. The beaded sections are separated from each other by approximately an inch of unbeaded ground net.
Prior to conservation mounting, the netting was attached to a crude blue-grey paper. A paper tag with a symbol and writing was attached to the top of the netting. Paper tag is now in object folder. See Inscriptions for contents.
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2010; Merry Gladding Highby, Baltimore, MD.
Inscribed: Paper tag at top with printed emblem is griffin with a crown confronting circular disk with a 1 and a wing, the initials "M.B. below." Printed "No." and handwritten "713" plus other handwritten numbers and letters that are not completely legible.
