Purse

Early 20th century

  • Titles Purse (Descriptive)
  • Medium fabric, beads
  • Dimensions 8 x 6 in. (20.3 x 15.2 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ireland, AFI.19.1982.13
  • Work Type purse
  • Classification Costume

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Square lab trial for a black jasper plaque with white relief of Thalia. Thalia is one of the nine Muses. She is the muse of comedy and holds a mask and a shepherd's crook modelled by John Flaxman in about 1776
Round blue jasper button with white relief "THE SEAL OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON 1889" and relief portrait of George Washington
Bust in profile left in Prussian general's uniform.