Pair of Lace Lappets (1700–1720): Art, History and Details

Pair of Lace Lappets (1700–1720) 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 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.

Object facts

• Title: Pair of Lace Lappets
• Date: 1700–1720
• Culture: Belgium, Brussels
• Type: Lace
• Technique: Bobbin lace (Point d'Angleterre)
• Dimensions: Average: 10.5 x 99.7 cm (4 1/8 x 39 1/4 in.)
• Collection: T - Lace
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1923.1020

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).

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