Handkerchief with embroidery of a gardener and a bouquet protruding from an oval, with needle lace stitches in the openwork sections

Handkerchief of batiste with embroidery (whitework) on the corners in which needle lace decorative stitches in openwork and around the handkerchief a border of lace embroidery: English embroidery (openwork). Embroidery: the motifs on the diagonally opposite corners are equal. It concerns a gardener with a spade with on one side a plant in a flower pot and on the other side a pollard willow. The gardener is seen from the back, he wears a round hat. The ground he stands on is made in openwork in which a needle lace ground is made. The motif in the other corners concerns an oval in which a large leaf stands that is crowned by a bouquet. The bouquet sticks out at the top of the oval. In the flowers and leaves needle lace stitches. Around the handkerchief runs a scalloped edge, in each semi-circular scallop are two openwork circles and an embroidered leaf.