Long purse
Category
Costume
Date
1830 - 1840
Materials
Textile
Measurements
153 mm (H)89 mm (W)
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349532
Summary
Knitted fully beaded long purse with a design of white lillies and green leaves encircling the purse on a background of blue beads. The top and the base have old gold beads. There is no frame. It is lined with silk. It fastens with an old gold knitted top with a double drawstring of fine cord. (female)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade