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Playing card case of wine-red velvet, embroidered in gold and silver thread and multicoloured silk with an unidentified (family?) coat of arms
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Playing card case of wine-red velvet, embroidered in gold and silver thread and multicoloured silk with an unidentified (family?) coat of arms

anonymous · c. 1680 - c. 1720 · embroidering; cutting; weaving; tanned; wood (plant material); velvet (fabric weave); goatskin; silver thread; gold thread; vloszijde

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Purse of wine-red velvet, embroidered in gold and silver thread and multi-colored silk with an unidentified (family?) coat of arms. Model: flat round base with a wavy raised rim around it provided with holes through which a cord of red and yellow braided silk is drawn - ending in a knob with wooden core and wrapped with silver thread - is drawn. On the rim a knob is sewn in one place. Lined with goatskin. Decoration: the 20 protrusions or 'ribs' are decorated with alternating stacked ornaments in relief of silver thread and a silver leaf. At three-quarter height runs a horizontal line of silver thread. The base is circled with a double border within which a zigzag line of silver thread. In it a family coat of arms in relief embroidered in multi-colored silk surrounded by an order chain with shells (Order of Saint Michael) and a star in the middle bottom (Order of the Holy Spirit). Around it fleurs-de-lys between which two armor sets.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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speelbeurs
Credit lineSpeelbeurs van wijnrood fluweel, geborduurd in goud- en zilverdraad en veelkleurige zijde met een ongeïdentificeerd (familie?)wapen. c. 1680 - c. 1720. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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