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Chasuble of green velvet, embroidered in gold and silver thread and multicolored silk with an unidentified (family?) coat of arms
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Chasuble of green velvet, embroidered in gold and silver thread and multicolored silk with an unidentified (family?) coat of arms

anonymous · c. 1680 - c. 1720 · sawing; trekken; embroidering; die cutting; weaving; tanned; paper; wood (plant material); silver (metal); velvet (fabric weave); goatskin; parchment (animal material); cantille; silver thread; gold t

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

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Purse of green velvet, embroidered in gold, 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 yellow and green braided silk is drawn - ending in a knob with wooden core and wrapped with silver thread - is drawn. Lined with goatskin over which pink silk. Decoration: the 20 protrusions or 'ribs' are decorated with alternating, stacked ornaments in relief of silver thread around a core of parchment or paper. In the middle of the quatrefoil flowers a silver leaf. At three-quarter height runs a horizontal line of silver thread. Along the top the whole is edged with a border 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 a curtain gathered on both sides of pink, crowned by three fleurs-de-lys with a half on both sides.

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

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