Purse
Category
Costume
Date
1830 - 1840
Materials
Textile
Measurements
76 mm (H)
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349519
Summary
Circular knitted fully beaded purse on a steel frame with sable beads on a grey background with multicoloured flowers with zigzag pattern around the edge and a blue beaded looped fringe. Cf. Nancy Bradfield 'Costume in Detail' pg.186 (female)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade
References
Bradfield, 1968: Nancy Bradfield, Costume in Detail, 1730-1930, Harrop, London, 1968, p.186.