Image: Spectacle Case, late 19th century, Glass beads, linen, leather, and metal, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Dwight W. Morrow, Jr., Constance Morrow Morgan, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1956, Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/156670
Spectacle Case, Mexican, late 19th Century, Glass Beads, Linen, Leather, and Metal
Someone entrusted this dog with a very important key, so of course you could trust it with your spectacles.
This piece was part of a wide array of beadwork collected by Elizabeth Morrow, Charles Lindbergh’s mother-in-law. Elizabeth was married to the United States’ ambassador to Mexico, and she was excited to share the loveliness of the art and crafts she found there with the rest of the world.