Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Purse (USA), mid-19th century

  Ladies’ purse worked in crochet in blue and tan silk with vertical stripes of steel beads and looped fringe at the bottom. Steel frame for opening.

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  Purse, early 19th century

  Woman’s purse of gray satin embroidered with silk ribbons and colored silk floss. Copper beads stitched in pairs on the seam.

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  Purse (USA), mid-19th century

  Knitted bag, circular in form, with an eight-pointed star in the middle with a floral border. Beaded scallops around edges; metal frame, silk lining.

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  Purse (possibly England), early 19th century

  Purse made of beads held in place by buttonhole stitches in a design of flowers and leaves in color on white ground. Purse is possibly cut down from a larger…

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  Purse, 17th century

  Purse, with the upper section knitted in blue silk in a lozenge pattern with openwork borders. The lower section is a a grid of laid blue silk cords interlaced and…

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  Purse (USA), 19th century

  Knitted purse with colored glass beads in design of a wide band of roses on a white ground, with borders of blue flowers on a brown ground. Silver frame with…

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  Purse (USA), 19th century

  Knitted bag with colored glass beads in a design of a rose with forget-me-nots in an eight-pointed star on a blue ground; finished at bottom with blue bead fringe and…

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  Purse, 20th century

  a/: front and back of purse ornamented with embroidery in design of a square composed of four squares, each showing a floral design – made into a purse with lining…

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  Purse (France), early 20th century

  Small beaded bag, envelope shaped with flap and strap. Silver-colored beads form the ground, with design in black jet beads: an elephant on the back, and a rosette on the…

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  Purse (France), 1910–30

  Oblong shape with tapered bottom. Embroidered with multicolored beads in a design of a winged scarab. Design is the same on front and back.