SWEETMEAT PURSE

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

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