French
Sablé beadwork stocking purse, 18th century
silk, glass beads, metal alloy
approx. 11 x 3 inches total length
POA
Stocking purse with sable beadwork, Four-sided shield-shaped form with design of carnations in red, pink, green, blue, and yellow on a white ground, executed in allover beadwork. Very good condition....
Stocking purse with sable beadwork, Four-sided shield-shaped form with design of carnations in red, pink, green, blue, and yellow on a white ground, executed in allover beadwork.
Very good condition. The beadwork from the first half of the 18th century, remade into a stocking purse ca. 1775–1800.
Provenance
Collection of Carrie Lauer Lehman (1865–1937), whose collection of 17th- and 18th-century accessories is at the MFA Boston; thence by descent.
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