Long purse
Category
Costume
Date
1750 - 1760
Materials
Textile
Measurements
490 mm (H)
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349538
Summary
Cream silk netted long purse decorated with silver lozenges with a pair of tassels at either end of silver wire and thread loops with silver sequins. Centre opening 153 mm. Could be Indian. Cf. Nancy Bradfield 'Costume in Detail' pg.34 (female)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade