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Handkerchief border
Flemish, Brussels
1870s
Object Place: Brussels, Flanders
Medium/Technique
Point, bobbin, needle-point lace
Dimensions
34.8 x 33.5 cm (13 11/16 x 13 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Mary Lee, Guy Hunter Lee, Mrs. Henry Jackson, Mrs. Thornton K. Ware, and Mrs. Joseph T. Walker, in memory of Marion Glidden Dove Lee (Mrs. Francis Wilson Lee)
Accession Number54.550
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionDeep handkerchief border of point and bobbin lace; ground vrai-réseau with design of fat pointed leaves and masses of minute blossoms probably representing lilacs; design almost entirely in bobbin lace, center of blossoms and ground in needle-point lace. Example of "duchesse" lace.