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Bride’s Headdress

1800-1899

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Bride’s Headdress

1800-1899

Physical Qualities Metal with kingfisher feathers, silk, wire, silk-wrapped wire, pearls, coral, jade, semi-precious stones, glass, 22 × 29 × 22 cm. (8 11/16 × 11 7/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
Credit Line The Baltimore Museum of Art
Object Number 2017.440
A series of intricate and symbolic motifs are attached to a strips of stiff silk
The Baltimore Museum of Art; Mrs. Julius Levy, Baltimore (likely by gift from her husband)

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