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SOLD

Knotted Reticule
c 1805

Rare, small and charming.  Can you visualise wearing a white Regency empire line dress and with this reticule dangling from your wrist? It might have held a coin but nothing else. Strangely I had another example quite recently which I sold.


Cataloguing

Two circles, wired and covered with mid green tape, with beige, green and brown knotted silk circles, the top one gathered into similar green silk ribbons, the base with a tassel.



3 1/2 in; 9 cm diameter.


Condition

The reticule is in excellent condition. The ribbons are a little faded, but hardly noticeable.