Cap streamers
date: label: Date
content: mid-18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Cap streamers of Mechlin lace in a pattern showing a series of medallion compartments that are connected by volutes terminating in scrolls. Each medallion contains respectively: a winged cupid, prancing deer, a leaping rabbit set before a large tree and two architectural structures with a bird flying above, and a bird perched on a tree branch.
place: label: made in
content: Belgium
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1962-50-57-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: lace
label: Type
content: Cap streamers
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen Technique: bobbin lace, Mechlin ground
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 53 x 10 cm (20 7/8 x 3 15/16 in.)