SWEETMEAT PURSE

Unknownc1670-80

Simone Handbag Museum
Seoul , South Korea

Large decorative tassels were highly fashionable in seventeenth-century Europe. So prevalent did they become that by 1629 a botanist described one plant in such terms: ‘The whole stalke with the flower upon it doth somewhat resemble a long Purse tassel.’

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Title: SWEETMEAT PURSE
Creator: Unknown
Date Created: c1670-80
Location Created: FRENCH
Type: Handbag
Rights: SIMONE HANDBAG MUSEUM
Medium: SILK AND METAL BROCADE, BRAID AND RIBBON

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Bag Brocade Ribbon Silk Textile