Details
A needlework scent case in the form of a bellows, worked in coloured silks and silver gilt threads, the handle and nozzle worked in crimson silk, the lining of the concertina compartment of blue and white silk--4in long, English, first half of 17th century
See colour illustration
See colour illustration
Literature
G S Seligman and T Hughes, Domestic Needlework, 1926; see colour plate 10A for a similiar case.