Lady's Féssi Cap
This elegant tasseled cap, called a "Féssi" in Greek (and often known as a "Fez" in English), was popularized as ladies' headgear by Amalia of Oldenburg, the Greek queen from 1836 to 1862. At her arrival in newly independent Greece, Queen Amalia created her own romanticized imagining of a national dress, incorporating different elements from Greece's many– and very different– regional costume traditions. The ladies' fez, so distinguished by its much longer tassel and distinctive woven gold sheaf, was an eye-catching characteristic of the so-called "Amalia Costume" (stolí Amalías).
Artwork Details
- Title: Lady's Féssi Cap
- Date: ca. 1850
- Culture: Greek
- Medium: wool, silk, metallic thread
- Dimensions: Length (circum.): 20 in. (50.8 cm)
- Classification: Accessory-Headwear
- Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Angelika W. Frink, 1953
- Object Number: C.I.53.48.5
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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After a painting by baron François Gérard (French, Rome 1770–1837 Paris)
designed 1805, woven 1808–11
ca. 1835
Stammer & Breul (active mid-19th century)
1855
1839
Emile-Frédéric Hébert (French, active 1851–1867, 1851–1867)
ca. 1860
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