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Lace Lappet
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About this work
Very few complete lace headdresses from the 1700s and 1800s (known as a "lace head") survive, but three pieces formed this type of headwear. This long narrow piece of lace formed the pair of lappets (streamers that frame the face). A complete lace headdress can be seen in CMA objects 1936.489 and 1936.490.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineLace Lappet, 1715–74. France, Argentan. Linen: needle lace (Point de Argentan); average: 10.8 x 148 cm (4 1/4 x 58 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Frances McIntosh Sherwin Collection, 1936.180
