Purse
date: label: Date
content: 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Small purse with four identical shield-shapes sides and a draw-cord top, lined with blue silk damask. On each side is a symmetrical design of a flowering plant with birds perched in the branches. The panels are joined with narrow gold braid; the top is bound with the same. Beads at the ends of the draw-cord are covered with silver and gold net.
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: 1959-170-8
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-core threads Technique: plain weave with discontinuous weft (tapestry weave)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 11.1 x 14 cm (4 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.)