Pocketbook
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Pocketbook of cream-colored silk taffeta embroidered with verse and flowering vine in pink, green and tan silk. Twisted cream-colored silk floss cord around edges; pink silk lining.
label: Description
content: Verse:
label: Description
content: qu’il soit le dépositaire
label: Description
content: des sentiments d’un coeur qui sait t’aimer
label: Description
content: il n’en est point qui’un ami vueilletaire
label: Description
content: il e nest tant qu’il ne peut exprimer
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-5-1
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Pocketbook
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: embroidered in chain stitches on plain weave Label: silk with silk chain stitch embroidery
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 18.8 x 22.8 cm (7 3/8 x 9 in.)