Beaded purse. Beads, 24 to the inch, on crocheted silk. Background colour opalescent with blue, green, grey, pink, red. Crocheted circularly one bead to each stitch, tapered at bottom by six sets of intakes and finished by a tassel of coral coloured beads. It is gathered at the top to two gilt bars with a coral bead at each end, fastened by a gilt ring decorated with coral beads and attached by a gilt chain.
The decoration reading clockwise - a table tomb with an urn overflowing with roses on it, a tall cypress tree, at its foot a little church, a column wreathed with roses, at its base a tablet with S upon it, a cypress tree. The background of the lower 1.5" is dark red, its upper edge zigzagged, in each triangular section formed by the intakes is a motif formed by massed flowers.
History note: Miss G. Caton Thompson on Applied Arts card
Given by Dr. Gertrude Caton-Thompson
Height: 4.5 in
Width: 3 in
Method of acquisition: Given (1960) by Caton-Thompson, Gertrude
19th Century, Early#
Circa
1800
CE
-
Circa
1849
CE
Accession number: T.1-1960
Primary reference Number: 197525
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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