Purse

United States

About 1830

  • Titles Purse (Descriptive)
  • Medium silk, leather, metal
  • Dimensions Overall: 9 1/2 x 7 in. (24.1 x 17.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Museum purchase with funds provided by the Fashion Group of Birmingham, 1986.614
  • Work Type purse
  • Classification Costume

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Three-piece tête-a-tête tea set consisting of teapot, creamer and sugar, each piece three sided, the teapot with handle, finial and curved spout with overall embossed surface decoration of stylized leaf and berry design, the sides engraved with asymmetrical pattern of birds, butterflies and chrysanthemums, the border of applied "Japanese chain" design (a pattern of painted ovals and half flowers with scrolls); the creamer with similarly embossed handles and finial, with beak-shaped spout, same border pattern, the body likewise decorated with engraved chrysanthemums and insects; the sugar with three embossed handles of same motif, the body engraved with insects and chrysanthemums, same border pattern, all pieces with the engraved initials: "C.B.E." in the Japanese style
Champagne flute with large, conical bowl of reddish-pink glass that fades toward the stem, with slight fluting and a series of black dots that become more elongated as they near the stem, the stem green-blue and the round foot of clear glass, the overall effect resembles a watermelon.
Transparent glass vase with wheel-cut decoration consisting of horizontal lines in an ascending-descending checkerboard pattern.
Shallow hand-carved, trencher-like vessel