Edging
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
name: label: Collector
content: William A. Clark, (American, 1839–1925)
notes: label: Description
content: Length of Point d'Argentan edging lace with elongated flowers and leaves has garlands and rocaille florishes. Hexagonal mesh ground; raised buttonholed borders used to outline the motifs. Many nineteenth-century insertions in the ground to repair and stabilize the piece.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, William A. Clark Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2018-50-13
objectType: label: Type
content: lace
label: Type
content: Edging
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen, cotton Technique: needle lace with machine lace insertions to ground
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 11.4 × 198.1 cm (4 1/2 in. × 6 ft. 6 in.)