Production: Unknown
Beadwork purse depicting Bacchus surrounded by fruiting vines.
Anonymous gift
Height: 9.5 cm
Width: 12.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1977-11-28) by Anonymous
Mid 19th century
Production date:
circa
AD 1850
probably Linen
Weaving
: Beadwork purse depicting Bacchus surrounded by fruiting vines.
Beading (process)
Accession number: T.1-1977
Primary reference Number: 110944
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Purse" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110944 Accessed: 2023-06-08 14:21:50
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110944
|title=Purse
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-08 14:21:50|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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