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Pocketbook
sablé
French
about 1715
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Glass beads strung on linen (sablé); woven silk and metallic binding
Dimensions
Overall: 10 x 16 x 1.5 cm (3 15/16 x 6 5/16 x 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
Accession Number43.2343
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionRectangular envelope style pocketbook. Polychrome opaque and translucent glass beads strung with linen thread, held together by interlocking looping stitches (sablé). Design on white ground: woman playing table organ, woman seated, boy and girl flanking, urn with flowers right, two insects and curtain above (obv.); sun and phoenix of Louis XIV, ribbon above inscribed IE VIS SANS MOURIR, inscribed at bottom and right SI IE MEURS CE NEST QUE POVR REVIVRE (rev.); vegetative scene (flap). Gilt-galloon binding. Salmon figured silk lining and side panels. Cardboard foundation.
ProvenanceElizabeth Day McCormick collection; Gift to the MFA, October 14, 1943