Engageante of needle lace with symmetrical pattern with a flaming flower in the middle flanked by elongated feathered leaves including large hanging fan-shaped flowers, Engageante of natural colored needle lace: Alençon lace. Symmetrical pattern that is interrupted because a part of the person involved is missing on the left. In the original center, the pattern consists of a flaming flower along the top, including a half wreath of rosette flowers. The flaming flower is flanked on both sides by a rocaille-like pattern with a grid pattern under which a lying elongated feathered leaf springs with a large hanging fan-shaped flower underneath. One of the other large flowers in the pattern is a carnation. The flowers are made up of festival stitches with many small recesses and relief contours. The motifs are connected by a fine mesh soil, an Alençon soil. There are many different types of decorative grounds and decorative stitches applied in and between the flowers. The top is finished straight with a banded strap. The scallop edge comes from the pattern and is finished with pictos., anonymous, France, c. 1725 - c. 1735, linen (material), Alençon lace, l 111 cm × w 14 cm

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