TWO BROCADE CHILDREN'S BONNETS

TWO BROCADE CHILDREN'S BONNETS

18TH CENTURY

each worked with silk yarn, satin ribbon, damask silk and cotton lawn, in satin and Florentine stitch, one decorated with roses, displayed in a later Perspex case (2)

11cm high

Provenance

The Leopold Ikle Collection.

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, p.141 for a discussion of these bonnets.