Details
A purse in the form of a bunch of grapes, the grapes worked in many coloured silks and silver gilt threads, embellished with seed pearls, with three similar pendants, the vine leaves in green silks and gilt threads, the concertina purse lined with salmon pink silk, with a pink silk and silver gilt thread plaited drawstring and handle--3in long, English, 17th century
see front cover
see front cover
Literature
G S Seligman and T Hughes, Domestic Needlework, 1926; see plate 54D for a similar purse with only two pendants and more pronunced leaves.
There is also a similar purse in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
There is also a similar purse in the Victoria and Albert Museum.