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

Pair of Lace Lappets (early 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: early 1700s
• Culture: Belgium, Brussels
• Type: Lace
• Technique: Bobbin lace (Point d'Angleterre)
• Dimensions: Average: 11.5 x 120.7 cm (4 1/2 x 47 1/2 in.)
• Collection: T - Lace
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1923.1002

A detail from the museum

Based on its design, this lace lappet can be dated to early in the reign (1715–1774) of Louis XV.

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

• 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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