Flower-holder

The flower-holder is an fashion accessory which was usually used, since the 16th century and throughout the 19th century. Accessory of ornament, it evolved/moved with the vestimentary modes. Their form is generally delicate and their matter can be made up Nacre, of Ivoire, scale, Opaline, money or Or, of Perle S and coral and invaluable stones.

Appeared at the 16th century because the use of the fashionable evenings wanted that the women hold at the same time a Bouquet of flower, a range a Dance card and a Mouchoir, the whole of only one hand, the other being devoted to their rider.

The flower-holder was originally a utility object, made up of a small mud prolonged by a handle, sometimes held by the hand of the lady thanks to a chain and to a ring passed with a finger. Also, due to feasibility, certain flower-holder, could be associated with a small mirror, a Dance card, with a Flacon of perfume, with a range. Other flower-holder could be gone up on a tripod to pose it in damaging the flowers.

In 2005, an exposure held with the Museum Cognacq-Jay allowed to present to the general public a collection of 120 flower-holder of France, England, Austria and Italy, lent by a private collector.

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