Panels from a Sweet Meat Purse

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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ERS Needlework Collection

Name/Title

Panels from a Sweet Meat Purse

Entry/Object ID

2020.3.1

Description

Pair of panels from a sweetmeat purse, in polychrome silk, silk gimp, and silver metallic thread with stylized flowers, a bird, and a rabbit on one panel, and a bird on the other. Edged with silver lace.

Category

Clothing and dress

Made/Created

Artist

Anonymous

Date made

circa 1600

Time Period

Late Elizabethan

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

purses (drawstringed accessories)

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Top panel

Height

4-1/2 in

Dimension Description

Bottom panel

Height

4-1/2 in

Width

4-7/8 in

Dimension Description

Framed

Height

11-1/4 in

Width

7-1/2 in