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Strip of needle lace with a scattered pattern of rosette flowers on stems, a leaf garland along the lower edge, an openwork oval and round flower
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Strip of needle lace with a scattered pattern of rosette flowers on stems, a leaf garland along the lower edge, an openwork oval and round flower

anonymous · c. 1785 - c. 1799 · application lace; Brussels appliqué; drochelgrond; linen (material)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Strip of natural-coloured Brussels appliqué lace: needle lace applied to drochel ground. Under a scattered pattern of rosette flowers on a stem and at regular intervals a somewhat larger flower branch and a loose star flower runs along the lower edge of the strip a continuous pattern of a wavy sparse leaf garland. On the garland always an upright openwork oval flower and a hanging rounder flower. This rounder flower is also openwork and has, like the oval flower, a decorative filling of several radar picots. The motifs are connected to each other by a fine hexagonal lattice ground, a drochel ground. The upper side is finished straight. The straight lower side consists of small motifs, which form very faint shells and which are finished with picots.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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strip
Credit lineStrook naaldkant met strooipatroon van rozetbloempjes aan steel met bladslinger langs onderrand met opengewerkt ovaal en rond bloempje. c. 1785 - c. 1799. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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