Coin Purse

Title: Coin Purse
Description: A beaded purse that depicts a landscape scene. In the foreground, a column sits in front of a tree and a bush. In the background, there are three cream houses with terracotta roofs. The purse’s flap depicts a basket filled with flowers.
Identifier: 2022.iitb.18
Date: ca. 1800-1820
Spatial Coverage: Mexico
Creator: Mexican
Format: coin purses
Medium: beads on silk, with metal thread
Subject: beadwork (visual works); columns (architectural elements); Small houses; vegetation; flower (motif)
Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/156677
Provenance: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Dwight W. Morrow, Jr., Constance Morrow Morgan, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1956
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