Object name: Wallet / Culture or time period: Asian cultures / Accession number: Acc.4697 - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Wallet, accession number 9-21255, described as Wallet to be carried in riding boot. (Fide: Ilse M. Fang, 8/28/2001: This is why outside of wallet is smooth, so it can be tucked into boot.) Navy blue silk damask outside. Inside, the fronts of the two compartments show miniature replicas of belt or button pendants, a purse to be looped over a belt, a mirror and a pouch like this item. The compartments are lined with peach-colored, glazed cotton cloth. The two fronts are framed with the identical white, light blue and navy blue braids around a woven tape, scalloped on one side and a running pattern of a four-petaled flower. Left: red dots and navy blue on white; right: red dots and white on navy blue. On left panel on a black background: a case for a pipe; one for spectacles, a purse. On right panel on a background of patterned lavender silk: mirror and tobacco or medicine pouch; wallet for a boot. Each item framed with the same braid as the panels, the miniature wallet even with the same tape. Inside the braid, the pipe pouch body has another braid: blue-white; the spectacle-case, purse and tobacco case, a white cord loosely wound with red; and the mirror, another braid like the outside one. Orchids adorn the pipe pouch, a chrysanthemum the spectacle case; butterflies, the purse; crabapple, the tobacco pouch; and columbine and peach blossom the miniature wallet. Fide: Ilse M. Fang, 8/28/2001: The inside is just decoration, which is miniatures of larger types of pouches; this wallet has a function, to carry a key or other flat things. Ochre cords and tassels, the latter wound in blue. Height of wallet: 14.6 cm; width when closed: 9.5 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Wallet, accession number 9-21256, described as Wallet to be carried in riding boot. Covered inside and outside with black broadcloth, bordered with a white, light blue and navy braid. It covers both sides and one bottom together, the other edges separately for the inside and the outside. Top and bottom edges rounded. Inside braids: a narrow green, white pearled tape. Plain outside; inside appliqued with two pink flowering plants. Anthers in satin and know stitch. Both outside and inside made of one piece each. Compartment lined with vermillion red silk, the upper edge with pink, sized cotton cloth. Left panel has a wide inside pocket; the right panel, two narrow ones. Use of inside pockets unknown. A red slip of paper with four cyclical binoms was found in the wallet, stuck in the wide inside pocket. Overall height: 16 cm; width, closed: 9.7 cm.