Handbag

France

About 1900

  • Titles Handbag (Descriptive)
  • Medium steel beads, crochet, chain
  • Dimensions Overall: 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm) Overall1: 9 in. (22.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Eugenia Green, 1982.107
  • Work Type handbag
  • Classification Costume

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Bust in profile left in Prussian uniform with several medals including the Order of the Black Eagle, the Iron Cross, and the National Order of Merit.
The dish in the shape of a shell on a rectangular base with four leafy feet, upon this a uniformed man with raised right fist holding a peasant at the throat.
Tan and brown agate teapot with cover, originally broken in several pieces
Round blue jasper medallion with white relief of Venus chiding Cupid, set in silver as a brooch