Caption

Lace fragment, repossession provenance; needle lace, Alençon lace, 18th century, France. The edge features a broad floral ornament composed of a repeated, elaborate bouquet of flowers; the edge is serrated following the forms of the flower calyxes, repeated in threes. Above, against the mesh background, very small heart-shaped leaves are depicted. Lace; width 8 cm, length 51 cm., A horizontal strip of delicate lace in off-white is laid against a smooth gray background; the lace features a scalloped top edge with an ornate floral and leafy embroidery pattern and a lower edge finished with a fine stitched border, while the central area of the lace is a fine net dotted with a few small raised embroidered buds.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A14_053

License type

Rights managed

Available size

46.6Mb (3.4Mb) / 20.0in x 9.1in / 6000 x 2715 (300dpi)

Keywords

Lace fragment repossession provenance needle lace Alençon lace 18th century France edge features broad floral ornament composed repeated elaborate bouquet flowers edge serrated following forms flower calyxes threes mesh background small heart-shaped leaves depicted Lace width 8 cm length 51 cm horizontal strip delicate lace off-white laid smooth gray background lace features scalloped top edge ornate floral leafy embroidery pattern lower finished fine stitched border central area lace fine net dotted small raised embroidered buds.