EVENING BAG – (Unknown Artist/Maker (German, 18Th Century)) ◄ Попередній наступне ►

Artist: Unknown Artist/Maker (German, 18Th Century)

Дата: 1910

Музей: Simone Handbag Museum (Seoul, South Korea)

техніка: Silver

This design – a mesh purse suspended on a chain and ring – became fashionable about 1900. It is unusual in its early combination of precious silver mesh with Bakelite, a new material developed in 1907 and now regarded as the first plastic.