Purse
date: label: Date
content: mid-18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Small shield-shaped purse on steel frame with spring catch, embroidered front and back in fine knot stitch with metal threads. One side shows a figure of a youth in a green coat, knee breeches, red stockings, and a round cap with a tassel holding a spade, with a castle and tree in the background. The other side shows a young woman in green bodice, red skirt, apron and green hat, holding a basket of flowers, with a house and trees in the background. With an elaborate enframement of gold embroidery in purl and flat satin stitches. The sides of the purse are of orange velvet, with woven gold metallic braid at the edges; lined with rose silk taffeta.
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: Gift of Irwin Untermyer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1959-170-5
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 on silk foundation Technique: embroidered in stem, satin, padded satin and knotting stitches with attached coils of gilt foil and gilt wire on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 12 x 9 cm (4 3/4 x 3 9/16 in.)