Queen Victoria helped popularize the bouquet holder, and she is seen holding one in her portrait “Queen Victoria at the Drury Lane Theatre, November 1837” painted by E.T. Parris. When the fashion of ...

The ring would allow the bouquet holder to be worn from the finger or on a chatelaine at the waist to free the lady's hands while dancing. The stick-stem handle is made from tapered mother of pearl.

A silver-plated bouquet holder with a butterfly motif, ca. 1871, made in Birmingham, England Smithsonian Gardens, Horticultural Artifacts Collection / Gift of Frances Jones Poetker. Other royals ...

In 1837, during Victoria’s first year as queen, the 18-year-old was sketched and subsequently painted by Edmund Thomas Parris as she held a bouquet holder while at the Drury Lane Theatre, an ...