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Embroidered purse of bottle-green velvet, worked in silver thread, the bottom decorated with an unidentified coat of arms in silver brocade and silk passementerie
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Embroidered purse of bottle-green velvet, worked in silver thread, the bottom decorated with an unidentified coat of arms in silver brocade and silk passementerie

anonymous · c. 1680 - c. 1720 · weaving; velvet (fabric weave); silver thread; zilverbrokaat; silk

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Gaming purse of bottle-green velvet embroidered with silver thread, on the base decorated with unidentified coat of arms in silver brocade and silk passementerie. Model: flat round base with a wavy raised edge around it provided with holes through which originally a braided silk cord was drawn, which is now missing. Lining missing. Decoration: the 20 protrusions or 'ribs' are decorated with frames containing alternating stacked ornaments in relief with leaf and flower motifs of silver thread. Along the top the whole was finished with a narrow passementerie with silver thread, which is now only partially present. The base is circled with a double border within which a zigzag line of silver thread. In this a lambrequin of silver brocade upon which an oval shield of silver brocade in the middle divided by a passementerie of blue silk upon which an unknown (worn) motif is embroidered or woven. Above the lambrequin a crown.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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speelbeurs
Credit lineSpeelbeurs van flessengroen fluweel geborduurd met zilverdraad, op de bodem versierd met ongeïdentificeerd wapen in zilverbrokaat en zijdenpassement. c. 1680 - c. 1720. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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