Frog Purse
Details
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Title
Frog Purse
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Associated place
Europe (place of creation) -
Date
17th century (1601 - 1700) -
Material and technique
silk and metal threads, silk floss, silk fabric, leather (possibly), wire and glass beads; detached needlepoint, laid and couched stitches
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Object type
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Dimensions
8 x 6 x 2 cm (length x width x depth) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Bequeathed by J. Francis Mallett, 1947.
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Museum location
currently out on loan
Museum department
Western Art
Accession no.
WA1947.191.324
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Further reading
Brooks, Mary M., English Embroideries of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries in the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum in association with Jonathan Horne Publications, 2004), 19, illus. 76, 77
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