Mantle by Charles Frederick Worth

Mantle

Charles Frederick Worth · 1890

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DETAILS
Artist
Charles Frederick Worth
Date
1890
Medium
silk, sequins
Location
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Collection
Costume Institute
Culture
French
Credit line
Gift of Orme Wilson and R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of their mother, Mrs. Caroline Schermerhorn Astor Wilson, 1949
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Charles Frederick Worth

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