Parasol
Featured is an example of an eighteenth century parasol with a canopy that was replaced at a later date, probably late 19th century. The repairer's label is still attached. Of particular interest are the whalebone rather than metal ribs and the hand-made bone or ivory ribs which vary in shape. During this period, whalebone was commonly used in corsets as support material.
Artwork Details
- Title: Parasol
- Date: ca. 1790
- Culture: American
- Medium: silk, metal, wood, baleen, ivory
- Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Virginia Putnam, 1968
- Object Number: 2009.300.2581
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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