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Small drawstring purse, made in England, 18th century. Small drawstring purse with pink silk lining covered with polychrome silk bobbin lace and bound with pink silk ribbon. The lace is worked with flower motifs on a net ground - the flowers and leaves are the same colour (pink, cream, blue and green) and the same design on each side but the net one side is green and one side is pink.  Silk bobbin…

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Subject

  • flowers;leaves

Type of item

  • Object Type: purse (ladies accessories)
  • Handbag
  • purse (ladies accessories)

Date

  • 1700/1800
  • 1700/1800

Subject

  • flowers;leaves

Type of item

  • Object Type: purse (ladies accessories)
  • Handbag
  • purse (ladies accessories)

Date

  • 1700/1800
  • 1700/1800

Providing institution

  • Victoria and Albert Museum

Aggregator

  • European Fashion Heritage Association

Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)

  • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

User generated content

  • false

Creation date

  • 1700/1800
  • 1700/1800

Places

  • England
  • United Kingdom
  • England

Provenance

  • Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and The Art Fund

Identifier

  • http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O10157
  • T.457-1990

Extent

  • Height 6.5cm, Width 11cm (unspecified)

Format

  • Technique: bobbin lace
  • Bobbin lace
  • bobbin lace

Is part of

  • Europeana XX: Century of Change

Is related to

  • blue
  • pink
  • green
  • net
  • lace
  • silk

Providing country

  • United Kingdom

Collection name

  • 2048213_EuropeanaFashion_1023

Timestamp created

  • 2020-04-09T09:16:57.098Z

Timestamp updated

  • 2022-09-30T09:41:10.509Z