IDENTIFIERS
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id:	197532
accession number:	T.3-1983

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Thursday 5 December 2013
updated:	Monday 7 June 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Pink, yellow and cream silk. Worked in a form of buttonhole stitch.   Pink and yellow zig-zag bands with regularly placed cream "spots".   Plaited drawstring of same three colours.   Narrow metallic thread braiding applied around one complete side.
title:	purse

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Inscription on label inside purse:  "This purse was worked by my mother when a child, she was born in the year 1700 and it was given to me by my grandmother the Countess of Abercorn when I was about 7 years of age.   E.Fox".
It is not known when object was first acquired.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/197532





CATEGORIES
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category: textiles

DATING
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creation date:	1700 - 1749
creation date earliest:	1700
creation date latest:	1749
culture:	18th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown