Embroidered purse of grey-blue velvet, worked in silver thread, the bottom decorated with an unidentified alliance coat of arms in gold and silver brocade and multicoloured silk
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Gaming purse of grey-blue velvet embroidered with silver thread, on the base decorated with unidentified coat of arms in gold and silver brocade and multicoloured silk. Model: flat round base with a wavy raised edge around it provided with holes through which originally a cord of braided silk was drawn through. The cord is missing. Lined with goatskin. Decoration: the 22 protrusions or 'ribs' are decorated with stacked standing on leaf and covered by leaf French lilies of silver thread in relief. Above the holes runs a horizontal line of silver thread. Along the top the whole was originally finished with a band of silver thread, now largely vanished. The base is circled with a double border within which a zigzag line of silver thread. In this a lambrequin of gold brocade with two oval shields upon which on the left a pinkish-red chevron on gold and on the right a green tree on a mound, on silver.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description