From the depths of the museum collection… emerges what looks like Madame Giry’s Mas

From the depths of the museum collection… emerges what looks like Madame Giry’s Masquerade cape. This one is made of fine black netting with intervowen black beads, and it’s lined with black cotton. It’s dated to c. 1890. I especially like the outline of big faceted black beads. Such a statement.

(from The National Museum in Norway)