Pair of Lace Lappets (1700–1740): Art, History and Details

Pair of Lace Lappets (1700–1740) 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: 1700–1740
• Culture: Italy, Venice
• Type: Lace
• Technique: Needle lace (Grounded Venetian Point)
• Dimensions: Average: 16.2 x 119.4 cm (6 3/8 x 47 in.)
• Collection: T - Lace
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1923.1005

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

• Milliken, W. Mathewson. 1922. “Lace and Its Development: III. Venetian Point and Punto di Milano.” Antiques, V. 2. (October)
• William Mathewson Milliken. "The Ellen Garretson Wade Memorial Lace Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 11, no. 1 (1924).

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