Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Small pocketbook, envelope shaped, with pattern in colored silks, gold and silver thread. Pattern of two burning hearts on an altar, supported by cupids with stylized floral sprays at corners. Lined with green silk taffeta.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 1640–1700
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
- Medium
- Medium: silk, gold and silver-wrapped silk, horsehair Technique: tapestry woven
- Dimensions
- H x W: 10 x 15 cm (3 15/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
- Type
- costume & accessories
- Purse
