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Travel bag
Unknownaround 1875
Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Berlin, Germany
The bag is an element of the representative travel luggage becoming fashionable in the mid-19th century. The red front is embellished with a grey and white poodle’s head with a plaid in its snout.The image is fashioned in the style of the “Berlin Wool Work” patterns spreading out from Berlin from the 1850s, and has been embroidered using wool and Venetian beads.
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Details
- Title: Travel bag
- Creator: Unknown
- Date: around 1875
- Location: Berlin,Germany
- Physical Dimensions: w54 x h27 x d13 cm
- Type: Object
- Medium: leather, velvet, canvas embroidered with wool and beads in half cross stitch, linen in twill weave, porcelain
- Inv.-No.: D (46 C 4) 334/1983
- ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-018719
- External Link: Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Copyright: Text: © Koehler & Amelang Verlag in der Seemann Henschel GmbH & Co. KG / Museum Euopäischer Kulturen, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / und die Autoren Photo: © Museum Euopäischer Kulturen, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Ute Franz-Scarciglia
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