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Bracelet (probably England)
This is a Bracelet. It is dated ca. 1830 and we acquired it in 1992. Its medium is dyed horsehair. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Horsehair jewelry
The custom of keeping a locket of hair as a token of love, or as a relic of a holy figure, has existed for centuries. The idea of using hair for the structural part of jewelry became fashionable in the eighteenth century. By the 1830s, especially in England and the United States, all sorts of pendants, brooches, earrings, necklaces, and bracelets were made using human as well as horsehair. Commercial catalogues of the 1850s to 1870s mass-marketed these delicate designs. It is inspiring how a banal material can be reinvented into something precious.
It is credited Museum purchase through bequest of Ida McNeil in memory of Lincoln C. McNeil and Catherine McNeil.
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 18.6 x 3.5 x 1 cm (7 5/16 x 1 3/8 x 3/8 in.)
Cite this object as
Bracelet (probably England); dyed horsehair; L x W x D: 18.6 x 3.5 x 1 cm (7 5/16 x 1 3/8 x 3/8 in.); Museum purchase through bequest of Ida McNeil in memory of Lincoln C. McNeil and Catherine McNeil; 1992-166-3
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Campana Brothers Select: Works from the Permanent Collection.
