AN EMBROIDERED SILK NEEDLEWORK GAMING PURSE

AN EMBROIDERED SILK NEEDLEWORK GAMING PURSE

18TH CENTURY

worked with silk floss, spangles, purl, glass beads and metallic threads, on a silk satin ground with various stitches, including: chain, split and couching, with forget-me-nots and coats of arms, with a coronet with four visible strawberry leaves and five raised silver 'pearls' for an earl, on the shield dexter a saltire parts twelve crosses, the arms for the Denny family, originally from Cumberland before settling and becoming prominent in Ireland, supported by a unicorn and a griffin, with the motto 'In Domine Confido', with a tasselled drawstring, displayed in a modern Perspex case

9.8cm high, 12cm wide

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Literature

The Feller Needlework Collection: 1, p.129 for a discussion of this purse.