Lace Cap Crown (mid-1700s): Art, History and Details

Lace Cap Crown (mid-1700s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the 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 semicircular lace cap forms one part of a ‘lace head’; a complete lace headdress can be seen in CMA objects 1936.489 and 1936.490.

Object facts

• Title: Lace Cap Crown
• Date: mid-1700s
• Culture: Belgium, Brussels
• Type: Lace
• Technique: Bobbin lace (Point d'Angleterre)
• Dimensions: Average: 22.3 x 23.8 cm (8 3/4 x 9 3/8 in.)
• Collection: T - Lace
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1923.1021

A detail from the museum

This cap crown is late Louis XV style.

Collection credit

Gift of Mrs. Edward B. Greene, G. G. Wade and J. H. Wade Jr. for the Ellen Garretson Wade Memorial Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Overloop, Eugène van, G. van Oest, and Musées royaux d’art et d’histoire (Belgium). Dentelles Anciennes Des Musées Royaux Des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels À Bruxelles. Bruxelles: Librairie Nationale D’Art et D’Histoire, 1912.
• W. M. M. (William M. Milliken) “The Ellen Garretson Wade Memorial Lace Collection.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 11, no. 1 (1924):

View the collection record

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