<I>Bouquet holder, woman and bird motif with enamel handle</I>
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The large lily-shaped vase is comprised of four stamped gilded brass repeats designed with a pierced depiction of a young girl and a bird on a branch in silhouette. They are joined by two eighteenth-century style decorations joining each of the panels. A floral pin with a flat bifurcated head pin is inserted through one of the ornate joints. This would pierce the stems in a bouquet to secure the flowers in the vase. The panels of the vase are attached to the handle by four stamped panels that depict flowers and foliage alternating with four narrow vertical stampings. The straight tapered handle is made of light blue enamel on copper with silver and gold paillons in designs around the stem, which recalls the French porcelain designs produced in the eighteenth century.. The handle is capped in with a gilded brass finial stamped in two parts with three progressively smaller elements and a round-link chain and ring attached to the tip. The ring, which has small dots at the edges and large ones in the middle on the exterior, would allow the bouquet holder to be worn on the finger or attached to a chatelaine worn at the waist to free the lady's hands while dancing."}, {"label": "Label Text", "content": "Flowers used for personal adornment were a popular, almost mandatory, fashion accessory in the nineteenth century. Small bouquets, called nosegays, posies, or tussie mussies were carried by debutantes, matrons, and girls, and they were a popular gift in the mid to late 1800s among friends and suitors. They were typically created in concentric rings of flowers, tightly wound together, and were often tied with ribbon or placed in a bouquet holder depending on the tastes and fashions. By the 1830s carrying small bouquets of flowers in decorative holders was an established fashion accessory of the upper class and royalty of Europe. These small accessories, also known as posy holders, \u00e2\u0080\u0098porte-bouquets\u00e2\u0080\u0099, and \u00e2\u0080\u0098bouquetiers\u00e2\u0080\u0099 were both decorative as well as useful. By providing a water source in the bottom of the receptacle, they were able to keep the flowers fresh throughout an occasion, and they also protected the wearer\u00e2\u0080\u0099s gloves or clothing from being stained by the plant pigments. Queen Victoria helped popularize the bouquet holder, and she is seen holding one in her portrait \u00e2\u0080\u009cQueen Victoria at the Drury Lane Theatre, November 1837\u00e2\u0080\u009d painted by E.T. Parris. When the fashion of carrying hand bouquets in decorative holders caught the fancy of the wealthy and middle class, holders were copied and mass produced in a variety of sizes, materials, and embellishments. During the second half of the nineteenth century, holders might be commissioned or purchased from the stock at a jeweler or florist shop. Few were made in the United States, instead they were usually imported from Europe and Asia. They were often given as a commemorative memento of historic encounters or events by the royalty and courts of Europe, but they were also used to celebrate and commemorate important, though less prestigious, events of the wealthy and middle class. Bouquet holders reached the peak of their popularity between the 1830s and 1880s, but it began to dwindle as bouquets of long-stemmed flowers (the latest horticultural development) loosely tied with ribbons surpassed the posy bouquet style. They were not totally out of fashion until the \u00e2\u0080\u009cRoaring Twenties,\u00e2\u0080\u009d when such objects became regarded as trivial and useless. The diversity of styles and mechanisms of bouquet holders is evidence of their longevity as a fashion accessory."}], "creditLine": [{"label": "Credit Line", "content": "Smithsonian Gardens, Horticultural Artifacts Collection. 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