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    Artist

  • Unknown Artist

    • Title

  • [Two Beaded bags]

  • Physical Description

    2 bags : Glass beads, canvas, fabric, and cord ; size varies

  • Date

    Early 20th century

  • Summary

    2024.173a: Trapezoidal shaped bag lined with striped cord. The beads display an abstract pattern with geometric and floral vines in yellow, white, and brown colors, on a turquoise background and bordered with red beads. The bag had been lined with a blue fabric, though much of this has worn away.

    2024.173b: Bucket shaped bag with pictorial representations in beads of a horse and rider coming through a gate and a Greek-type colonnade building in a park. There is a band of blue beads at the bottom of the bag and a large decorated bead at the bottom. The bag is lined with a blue silken fabric.

  • Subject

    Bead embroidery

  • Medium

    Accessories; Containers

  • Part Of

    Margaret Rothenberger family collection,, 1829-1995., AR 25465

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Unknown Artist: [Two Beaded bags], Leo Baeck Institute, 2024.173a-b.