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<I>Bouquet holder, scaly surface pattern</I>

Posy Holder, Flower Motif Cast silver holder with top formed of reptilian like roping and flowers and leaves. Handle in same reptilian pattern with leaves closing it. Chain with ring. The looped, or rat-tail, handle is made from a single sheet stamped with a scaly pattern produced by seven encircled dots. The handle terminates with a tiny stamped flower. There is also a ring near the bottom for attachment of chain, but it is missing. The chain would connect to a pin to secure the flowers in place, or a finger ring that would allow the bouquet holder to be worn from the finger or on a chatelaine in order to free the lady's hands while dancing. identical scaly pattern as handles 1980.026 and FJP.1987.015, 169, 179, 237; FJP.1987.003 4/16/18 C. Grissom - 2) plain loop handle ending in a flower-decorated plaquette; an oval ring loose around the handle onto which a round-link chain is looped ending in a plain finger ring, plaquette on the handle same as on the vases of 169, 179 Birmingham, Great Britain: group 2

Date

ca.1830-1920

Type

Bouquet holders

Medium

Copper

Department

HAC

Institution

Smithsonian Gardens

Object number

hac_FJP.1987.169

Credit

Smithsonian Gardens, Horticultural Artifacts Collection. Gift of Frances Jones Poetker.