Caption

Lace fragment, needle-stitched lace, highly elongated openwork ovals. Above the edge ornament, against a mesh background, a winding line interrupted by openwork circles. In the bends of the line, a rather large three-leafed branch projection. 18th century, probably France. Width 3.5 cm, length 42.5 cm., A horizontal length of delicate lace in a creamy off-white color stretches across a gray background, featuring a fine hexagonal mesh ground with a scalloped lower edge and a looser decorative upper edge; the lace shows a repeating floral motif with small three-petaled leaf shapes and a sinuous vine of linked rings and oval loops, plus a few irregular open areas and frayed thread ends.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A11_450

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53.2Mb (2.0Mb) / 20.0in x 10.3in / 6000 x 3097 (300dpi)

Keywords

Lace fragment needle-stitched lace highly elongated openwork ovals edge ornament mesh background winding line interrupted openwork circles bends line large three-leafed branch projection 18th century France Width 3.5 cm length 42.5 cm horizontal length delicate lace creamy off-white color stretches across gray background featuring fine hexagonal mesh ground scalloped lower edge looser decorative upper edge lace repeating floral motif small three-petaled leaf shapes sinuous vine linked rings oval loops plus irregular open areas frayed thread ends.