Muff Decoration

Date1790-1800

MediumSilk

DimensionsOW: 4 1/2"; OL: 4 5/8"; (Diam. picture) 2 1/4".

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1958-28

DescriptionMuff decoration. Portrait, plate-printed and handpainted; subject is young woman in large ribbon-trimmed hat, long curls, and bow trimmed fischu of the 1790's period; painted in brown, flesh, ivory, light blue, on heavy ivory satin; matted in paper frame tinted flesh-pink and pale-blue.
ProvenanceEx. collection: Goldschidt.