Busk

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The inscription with the flaming hearts reads, "loves joins them" and "the arrow unites us," while the message of the sun shining on a flower is "to see you or to die."

The Costume Institute

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Costume Institute's collection of more than thirty-three thousand objects represents seven centuries of fashionable dress and accessories for men, women, and children, from the fifteenth century to the present.

Metropolitan Museum of Art