PURSE
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
An off-white silk satin purse with silk cording around the sides and bottom. The front has an embroidered crown in gold, gray, and burgandy surmounting cyrillic initials EOM in gold embroidery. Intertwined in the initial are burgandy and gray initials or designs. The crown that surmounts the initials is the Dvorianskia Corona or Gentleman's crown. The inner lining is linen. There is a button hole on the front top.
- Object name:
- PURSE
- Made from:
- Silk -- linen
- Made in:
- Russia
- Date made:
- 19th c.
- Size:
- 25.4 × 16.5 cm (10 × 6 1/2 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 47.49
- Class:
- Costume
- Signature marks:
- Embroidery (Cyrillic initials)EOM Lower middle of the purse These are embroidered in gold, gray, and burgandy silk thread.
- Credit line:
- Gift of Jean Joyce, 2001