Cleveland Museum of Art
Mount for Purse or Escarcelle
Diego de Çaias
- Date
- c. 1559
- Medium
- steel with gold inlay
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This object served as a frame for a mounted leather or cloth purse. Worn by men at the waist, such purses were attached by means of a suspension swivel. The handsome gold inlay depicting hunting and military scenes includes the inscription ALFONSVS ESTENSIS, as well as a coat-of-arms that identifies the owner as Alfonso II d'Este, created Duke of Ferrara in 1559.
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