Purse
date: label: Date
content: 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Small purse having four identical shield-shaped panels joined with narrow gold braid; edged at top with same, with a gold cord to draw, whose ends have drops covered in gold netting; lined in rose silk taffeta. Each panel of blue silk with a small-scale symmetrical design woven in gold of a stylized plant with birds perched in the branches, and a winged female figure facing the birds with outstretched hands.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Irwin Untermyer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1959-170-6
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Purse
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, gold-wrapped silk Technique: tapestry woven
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 10 x 13 cm (3 15/16 x 5 1/8 in.)