Earth of bride

A sphere of married is an object carried out for the Mariage, in many French areas, between the medium of the 19th century and 1914, intended to collect the bouquet carried by the bride the day of the weddings.

“Cumbersome” and fragile, it always is very personalized by decorative elements out of wax, paper, glass (mirrors) and gilded metal, with very strong significance symbolic system.

External bonds

  • Site of the Council of the Museums of Poitou-Charentes, site of reference ( open since the autumn 2005 )

  • Site perso of Marc ROUSSEL, (with dedicated page, in line since March 2005 )

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