Natural coloured canvas embroidered in cross-stitch with polychrome silk threads and lined with cream coloured silk;
Yellow and cream silk tassels.
Given by Miss Helen Croucher
Height: 6 in
Width: 5.5 in
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 (1981-02-02) by Croucher, Helen, Miss
Mid 19th century
Circa
1825
CE
-
Circa
1874
CE
Accession number: T.2-1981
Primary reference Number: 197530
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/197530 Accessed: 2023-02-03 13:57:06
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{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/197530
|title=Purse
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-02-03 13:57:06|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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