Caption

Lace fragment, reprovenance noted, lace, Malines Mechelen lace, Henryków Heinrichau, varied background: point de neige type meshes and fanciful ones; contours of motifs highlighted with additional thread; mid-18th century; width 3 cm, length 50 cm., A horizontal strip of delicate lace with a floral and scroll pattern lies across a flat background; the lace is light in color and intricately woven with openwork areas and solid embroidered motifs, showing scalloped lower edge and a straighter upper edge, while the background is a smooth medium gray.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A11_417

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50.8Mb (2.6Mb) / 20.0in x 9.9in / 6000 x 2959 (300dpi)

Keywords

Lace fragment reprovenance noted lace Malines Mechelen lace Henryków Heinrichau varied background point de neige type meshes fanciful ones contours motifs highlighted additional thread mid-18th century width 3 cm length 50 cm horizontal strip delicate lace floral scroll pattern lies across flat background light color intricately woven openwork areas solid embroidered motifs showing scalloped lower edge straighter upper edge background smooth medium gray.