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Object Name: purse & sweetbag

Place of Creation: Europe, United Kingdom
Date: 1620-40

Accession Number: 1951.441
Image Copyright: © Manchester City Galleries

Physical Description

Medium / Material
  • linen
  • silk
  • metal
Support
 
Technique
  • embroidering
Description

Linen canvas embroidered in coloured silks. Red, green, blue, yellow and gold strip in tent stitch with rose carnation and other floral designs with leaves and coiling stems in silk against gold background. Yellow silk lining, remaining only at top. Threaded with double drawstring of metal cord through holes at top. Ornamented with looped tassel at each side at top and ring and ball tassel at each side at bottom (ball missing from one side).

Dimensions

Type: size
Height: 12 cm
Width: 12 cm
Depth: