Handkerchief with a border of needle lace with four large and four small ovals, Handkerchief with a border of natural colored needle lace, Brussels gauze lace. Around a cross-shaped batiste center is a wide edging of lace with hollow scallops, which are cut over by four large corner ovals, interspersed by four smaller ones. The scallops are composed of 'rails', a wheel rim and a leaf twig. The spiers are crowned by a leaf palette. The ovals filled with asterisks and wheels are closed by a scalloped edge, which consists of daisies, among which leaves hang. Hollow and convex c-volutes form

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Handkerchief with a border of needle lace with four large and four small ovals, Handkerchief with a border of natural colored needle lace, Brussels gauze lace. Around a cross-shaped batiste center is a wide edging of lace with hollow scallops, which are cut over by four large corner ovals, interspersed by four smaller ones. The scallops are composed of 'rails', a wheel rim and a leaf twig. The spiers are crowned by a leaf palette. The ovals filled with asterisks and wheels are closed by a scalloped edge, which consists of daisies, among which leaves hang. Hollow and convex c-volutes form the inner edge., anonymous, Brussels, c. 1870 - c. 1890, linen (material), Brussels point de gaze, h cm × w cm

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