Pouches & Purses

Pouches on Heraldic Art.

 

Purse mount (National Museum of Ireland 6847:W53). Ireland

Bag (Brooklyn Museum 70.177.49). Peru - 600-1400

Bag with chevrons (Brooklyn Museum 86.224.63). Peru - 600-1400

Coca bag (Brooklyn Museum 2004.53.54). 1000-1500 

Bag (Brooklyn Museum 29.1312.6). Peru - 1000-1532

Bag with tassels (Brooklyn Museum 29.1312.7). Peru - 1000-1532

Red tasseled bag (Brooklyn Museum 30.1204). Peru - 1000-1532

Cotton bag (Brooklyn Museum 42.155). 1000-1532

Bag (Brooklyn Museum 41.1275.132). Peru - 1400-1532

Coca bag (UBC Museum of Anthropology 1067/11). Peru - 1400-1532

Striped bag (Brooklyn Museum 36.409). Peru - 1400-1532

Geometric purse (Ethnologisches Museum V A 52575). Peru - 1450-1550

Matheron diptych bag (Louvre OD 125). France - 1475-1525

The Man with the Torch and a Woman Followed by a Fool by Lucas van Leyden (National Gallery of Art 1950.1.99). Netherlands – ca. 1508 

A Dialogue on Human Favour (National Gallery of Art 2006.11.34.a). France – ca. 1512-14 

A Courtier Standing Between Covetousness and Dissimulation (National Gallery of Art 2006.11.31). France – ca. 1512-14 

"Friendship Is Equality; A Friend Is Another Self" (National Gallery of Art 2006.11.42). France – ca. 1512-14

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