Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- 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.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Irwin Untermyer
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1959-170-8
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- costume & accessories
- Purse
- Medium
- Medium: silk, gilt wire, metal-wrapped silk-core threads Technique: plain weave with discontinuous weft (tapestry weave)
- Dimensions
- H x W: 11.1 x 14 cm (4 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
- made in
- France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1959-170-8
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4d7dfbbe6-476d-4b34-a11f-267c81e33d2c
