Playing card case of wine-red velvet, embroidered in gold and silver thread and multicoloured silk with an unidentified (family?) coat of arms
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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