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Bag

ca. 1878 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Blue silk bag with metal mount. Embroidered with pink, green, and black silks in back and long and short stitches in a design of intertwined floral sprays

Object details

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Materials and techniques
Brief description
Bag, embroidered silk, ca. 1878, British, Jane Morris
Physical description
Blue silk bag with metal mount. Embroidered with pink, green, and black silks in back and long and short stitches in a design of intertwined floral sprays
Dimensions
  • Width: 220mm (Note: board)
  • Height: 245mm (Note: board)
  • Depth: 45mm (Note: Bag on board)
Credit line
Bequeathed by May Morris
Production
It is likely that the embroidery for the bag was designed as well as worked by Jane Morris. It is stylistically similar to floral embellishment painted on a four page booklet of four pages of verse including a poem 'Oneglia' given as a keepsake by Jane Morris to Rosalind Howard in 1878. This survives at Castle Howard.
Collection
Accession number
T.70-1939

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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