"...More like the parasol" - green silk parasol , English, circa 1840s, collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum

 

(Note: This post, its title taken from my beloved "Sunday in the Park with George", was finished and scheduled well before Sondheim's death... a strange and poignant coincidence.)

Parasol with a green figured satin cover woven en disposition with a damask leaf pattern over which is a design of purple-blue flowers and bird sprays on curving stems. Trimmed with a green silk fringe. It has a long straight brown stained wooden handle with a hollow carved ivory tip and a flat carved ivory crook handle. The ribs are of whalebone, and the stays of black japanned metal with square sections. There is a top spring. A green silk carrying tassel is slotted through a hole in the handle, and a green silk cord with a button and brass fitting to keep it closed. The cover is hand-stitched.

- From the V&A website

That COLOR!