Purse

United States

About 1900 - 1930

  • Titles Purse (Descriptive)
  • Medium sterling silver
  • Dimensions 4 x 4 in. (10.2 x 10.2 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Miss Martina Robison, 1994.120
  • Work Type purse
  • Classification Costume

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Double face jug of light mustard-brown stoneware, the lower face with wide mouth, slightly open to reveal five teeth, the nose wide and flared, with two large, protruding ears and two green eyes with exaggerated eyelashes below two dark eyebrows, above this face a smaller face with similar features, but blue eyes, behind it the neck, with a loop handle on the backside.
String quilt. All machine-stitched
Large "Gunboat Quilt" of brown silk taffeta, at its center an embroidered basket overflowing with appliqued flowers and two tiny strawberries and a small butterfly, surrounded by an embroidered wreath of similar flowers, like flowers adorn each of the four corners, the quilt front is divided by a geometric pattern of two vertical and two horizontal bands of small dark-blue taffeta squares, the back a medium brown polished cotton, the edges bound with blue taffeta.
Yo-yo coverlet, pink and green zig-zag borders.