Purse
Category
Costume
Date
1830 - 1840
Materials
Textile
Measurements
102 mm (H)76 mm (W)
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349525
Summary
Knitted fully beaded rectangular purse with a design of buta in pinks, blues and greens with an upper part with a background o clear beads, the lower part with a background of blue beads. It has a gilt pinchbeck frame. It is lined with cream cotton. Cf. Nancy Bradfield 'Costume in Detail' pg. 186 (female)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade