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Hearst Museum object titled Coin purse, accession number 9-5871, described as Coin purse; silk, metal wrapped yarns; knotted netting; embroidered, blue ground, varicolored floral designs; 2 tassels, ring in center, 17 3/4 inches long, including tassels.
Hearst Museum object titled Coin purse, accession number 9-15400, described as Coin purse. Silk, cotton, paper, gilt paper wrapped yarns. Satin weave; plain weave lining; gauze weave panels, embroidered tent stitch; braid binding. Blue; light red lining; varicolored designs on white panels; blue and white braid. Floral motives. 10½ inches by 4 inches.
Hearst Museum object titled Purse and coin purse, accession number 9-21222a,b, described as Silk brocade, drawstring purse [A] and matching coin purse [B]. Fabric is woven into hexagon designs, with each hexagon containing a different pattern. Colors are geige, bronze, gray, mauve and cream. Base = rounded square covered with self fabric. Lined with silk and closed by a black silk cord run through gold-colored fittings. Purse: H = 18.5 cm, [base = 17.0 cm x 13.5 cm]; change purse: W = 13.5cm, H = 9 cm, D = 1 cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Wallet, accession number 9-21255, described as Wallet to be carried in riding boot. (Fide: Ilse M. Fang, 8/28/2001: This is why outside of wallet is smooth, so it can be tucked into boot.) Navy blue silk damask outside. Inside, the fronts of the two compartments show miniature replicas of belt or button pendants, a purse to be looped over a belt, a mirror and a pouch like this item. The compartments are lined with peach-colored, glazed cotton cloth. The two fronts are framed with the identical white, light blue and navy blue braids around a woven tape, scalloped on one side and a running pattern of a four-petaled flower. Left: red dots and navy blue on white; right: red dots and white on navy blue. On left panel on a black background: a case for a pipe; one for spectacles, a purse. On right panel on a background of patterned lavender silk: mirror and tobacco or medicine pouch; wallet for a boot. Each item framed with the same braid as the panels, the miniature wallet even with the same tape. Inside the braid, the pipe pouch body has another braid: blue-white; the spectacle-case, purse and tobacco case, a white cord loosely wound with red; and the mirror, another braid like the outside one. Orchids adorn the pipe pouch, a chrysanthemum the spectacle case; butterflies, the purse; crabapple, the tobacco pouch; and columbine and peach blossom the miniature wallet. Fide: Ilse M. Fang, 8/28/2001: The inside is just decoration, which is miniatures of larger types of pouches; this wallet has a function, to carry a key or other flat things. Ochre cords and tassels, the latter wound in blue. Height of wallet: 14.6 cm; width when closed: 9.5 cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Wallet, accession number 9-21256, described as Wallet to be carried in riding boot. Covered inside and outside with black broadcloth, bordered with a white, light blue and navy braid. It covers both sides and one bottom together, the other edges separately for the inside and the outside. Top and bottom edges rounded. Inside braids: a narrow green, white pearled tape. Plain outside; inside appliqued with two pink flowering plants. Anthers in satin and know stitch. Both outside and inside made of one piece each. Compartment lined with vermillion red silk, the upper edge with pink, sized cotton cloth. Left panel has a wide inside pocket; the right panel, two narrow ones. Use of inside pockets unknown. A red slip of paper with four cyclical binoms was found in the wallet, stuck in the wide inside pocket. Overall height: 16 cm; width, closed: 9.7 cm.

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