Caption:
Handkerchief with a border of needle lace with corner banderolles, Handkerchief with a border of natural colored needle lace, Brussels gauze lace. Around a large twelve-lobed, batiste centerpiece is a lace border of four elongated middle shells and deep corner shells. The latter are filled with a banderolle, which binds together a hanging tuft of lilacs and lilies. The lilies have a single relief leaf and form the outer corners. A chain of hanging clocks along the scallops forms the outer circumference., anonymous, Brussels, c. 1860 - c. 1880, linen (material), Brussels point de gaze, h 37 cm × w 37 cm