Pair of Lace Lappets (1740–60): Art, History and Details

Pair of Lace Lappets (1740–60) 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: 1740–60
• Culture: Belgium, Mechelen(?)
• Type: Lace
• Technique: Linen: bobbin lace
• Dimensions: Average: 11.5 x 111.8 cm (4 1/2 x 44 in.)
• Collection: T - Lace
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1936.174

Collection credit

The Frances McIntosh Sherwin Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Underhill, Gertrude. “The Frances McIntosh Sherwin Collection of Lace.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 23, no. 4 (1936).

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