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

Pair of Lace Lappets (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 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: 1700s
• Culture: Belgium, Mechelen
• Type: Lace
• Technique: Linen: bobbin lace
• Dimensions: Average: 105.5 x 10.2 cm (41 9/16 x 4 in.)
• Collection: T - Lace
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1934.268

Collection credit

Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness in memory of Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness

Further reading listed by the museum

• Underhill, Gertrude. “A Gift of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Lace.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 21, no. 10 (1934).

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