Purse
date: label: Date
content: mid-18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Shield-shaped purse trimmed with gold lace and lined with pink taffeta. On each side, gold thread embroidery and couched gold strip frame a scene embroidered in colored silks. On one side, a woman and two men pick fruit from a tree with a ladder; on the other, a house on a island in a lake in the background, with a coach and horses passing along a road in the foreground.
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: 1962-55-1
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Purse
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk and metallic thread embroidery, foil strips, coiled gilt wire, and spangles on silk foundation Technique: embroidered in running, stem, satin, knotting, and couching stitches on plain weave foundation; faces painted
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 11.1 x 10.2 cm (4 3/8 x 4 in.)