Purse
date: label: Date
content: mid-18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Small shield-shaped purse embroidered in colored silks and metal threads. On one side, a shepherdess and sheep, and on the other a shepherd with a dog, each embroidered in colored silks against a couched silver ground. Figures largely in knot stitch. Border of gold embroidery with spangles. Clasp of silver or steel, with spring.
place: label: made in
content: Germany
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1962-55-3
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Purse
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk and metal thread embroidery with gilt spangles on silk foundation Technique: embroidered in stem, satin, knot and couching stitches with attached coils of gilt foil and gilt spangles on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 11.1 x 9.2 cm (4 3/8 x 3 5/8 in.)