Card case
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Octagonal leather case stamped with a gold border has a central diamond-shaped cartouche with a stylized floral and leaf design embroidered in glass and metal beads. Glass beads are turquoise, white, orange, yellow, and black with metal bead accents. Surrounding the central diamond are scrolling forms and flowers in green, yellow, orange, red, and black beads with metal bead accents. Design is the same on the reverse with a palette of green, navy blue, red, yellow, orange, black, white, and clear bead with metal bead accents.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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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 Mrs. Hollis French
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1940-94-3-a
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Card case
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: leather, glass and metal beads Technique: embroidered beadwork