Purse
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1600
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Purse with drawstring top and tasseled bottom, made up of six shield-shaped panels of figured silk sewn together; the seams are covered with gilt wire. Each panel is ornamented with embroidery in couched bullion and metal thread embroidery. Secured at the top with silk cords ending in tassels with braided metallic heads.
place: label: made in
content: Italy or France
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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 Marian Hague
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1971-50-71
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Purse
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, gilt wire, metal-wrapped silk, coils of gilt and silver wire, and gilt spangles on silk foundation Technique: embroidered with couched threads on supplementary weft patterned foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 19.7 × 8.3 cm (7 3/4 × 3 1/4 in.)