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Unknown1830/1850

The Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom

Flat and oval beaded bag with a cut-steel clasp and loop chain handle. Lined with white taffeta. Knitted with coloured beads threaded onto cream silk thread. Each consist of nine segments radiating from the centre, in a pin-wheel. The white background is worked in transparent glass beads and the pattern is arranged in three concentric circles. The centre is worked solidly in blue beads, the middle band has a sprig of flowers in each of the nine segments, and the outer band has nine more densely worked floral sprays. A fringe of multi-coloured beads decorates the edge. Colours are in pink, red, green, blue and orange.

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  • Title: Bag
  • Creator: Unknown
  • Date Created: 1830/1850
  • Location: England
  • Physical Dimensions: Length: 21.5 cm excluding chain, Length: 7.25 in, Length: 18.4 cm, Length: 1 in fringe, Length: 2.5 cm fringe, Width: 6.125 in, Width: 15.5 cm
  • Provenance: Given by Miss A. Kinkelin and Miss F. Kinkelin
  • Medium: Knitted with beads threaded onto silk thread, lined with taffeta, steel
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