Wedding Dress

Florence, Alabama

1833

  • Titles Wedding Dress (Descriptive)
  • Medium silk, satin
  • Dimensions Overall: 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm) waist: 28 in. (71.1 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Jane Hix Ferrell, 1987.122
  • Work Type dress
  • Classification Costume

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Three-piece tête-a-tête tea set consisting of teapot, creamer and sugar, each piece three sided, the teapot with handle, finial and curved spout with overall embossed surface decoration of stylized leaf and berry design, the sides engraved with asymmetrical pattern of birds, butterflies and chrysanthemums, the border of applied "Japanese chain" design (a pattern of painted ovals and half flowers with scrolls); the creamer with similarly embossed handles and finial, with beak-shaped spout, same border pattern, the body likewise decorated with engraved chrysanthemums and insects; the sugar with three embossed handles of same motif, the body engraved with insects and chrysanthemums, same border pattern, all pieces with the engraved initials: "C.B.E." in the Japanese style
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