This dress was worn by Mrs. Harrison Williams and reflects her taste for the exotic and decorative. A collector of antiquities, she purchased a villa on the Isle of Capri which had once been the summer residence of Caesar Augustus and, later, the Emperor Tiberius. She filled it with Greek, Roman and Egyptian objet d'art. As James Birchfield commented in Kentucky Countess, "Mona's love of style never faltered, neither did it become bohemian. Her decorative existence, sustained by great riches, favored the highest forms."

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