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Bag

1830-1850 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Knitted with beads threaded onto silk thread, lined with taffeta, steel
Brief description
Beaded bag lined with taffeta, England, 1830-1850
Physical description
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.
Dimensions
  • Excluding chain length: 21.5cm
  • Length: 7.25in
  • Length: 18.4cm
  • Fringe length: 1in
  • Fringe length: 2.5cm
  • Width: 6.125in
  • Width: 15.5cm
Credit line
Given by Miss A. Kinkelin and Miss F. Kinkelin
Collection
Accession number
T.368-1967

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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