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Purse
This is a Purse. It is dated ca. 1600 and we acquired it in 1971. Its medium is silk, gilt wire, metal-wrapped silk, coils of gilt and silver wire, and gilt spangles on silk foundation and its technique is embroidered with couched threads on supplementary weft patterned foundation. It is a part of the Textiles department.
					
			This object was 
					
			
				bequest of
			
			Marian Hague.
					
									It is credited Bequest of Marian Hague.
						
Its dimensions are
H x W: 19.7 × 8.3 cm (7 3/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
Cite this object as
Purse; silk, gilt wire, metal-wrapped silk, coils of gilt and silver wire, and gilt spangles on silk foundation; H x W: 19.7 × 8.3 cm (7 3/4 × 3 1/4 in.); Bequest of Marian Hague; 1971-50-71