Long purse
Category
Costume
Date
1800 - 1825
Materials
Textile
Measurements
330 mm (H)
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349545
Summary
Blue netted silk long purse with enamelled gilt slides and trimmings. Trimmed with 2 gilt balls with a design of interlocking leaves dotted with blue and white enamel and a blue silk tassel at either end. The slides are gilt with blue enamel centres painted with tiny white and blue flowers. Central opening 102 mm. Cf Nancy Bradfield 'Costume in Detail' pg.117 (female)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade