Echarpe or runner from needlepoint of Queen Wilhelmina, Echarpe or runner from natural colored needle lace, Brussels mesh side. A rectangular center piece with mesh soil is filled with rising hyacinths and flowering tulip bulbs facing the center, while the edges are filled with lily of the valley, which are composed in a cross shape. At the ends is the Dutch Royal Coat of Arms, within a wreath of oak branches. Surrounded by this is a second shield shape, crowned with the inscription JE MAINTIENDRAI, which is hung with ribbons and bows on a circular arc that surrounds a broad border, on
Echarpe or runner from needlepoint of Queen Wilhelmina, Echarpe or runner from natural colored needle lace, Brussels mesh side. A rectangular center piece with mesh soil is filled with rising hyacinths and flowering tulip bulbs facing the center, while the edges are filled with lily of the valley, which are composed in a cross shape. At the ends is the Dutch Royal Coat of Arms, within a wreath of oak branches. Surrounded by this is a second shield shape, crowned with the inscription JE MAINTIENDRAI, which is hung with ribbons and bows on a circular arc that surrounds a broad border, on which ten putti move in reidans, orange-apples scattering from baskets and horns of abundance. This border is accompanied by a border with coats of arms of the nine Belgian provinces (Brabant, Liège, Hainaut, Antwerp, West Flanders, East Flanders, Limburg, Namur and Luxembourg), which are as it were fascinated by a heavy chain. At the ends there is a scalloped edge, in which four times a reserve with orange branches encased with inscriptions: between two crowned W's the dates 1914 and 1915, on the other side 1916 and 1917. Above one of the initials is the signature I. DE RUDDER, coat of arms (as symbol of the state, etc.), armorial bearing, heraldry, cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti', 'Cornucopia', Horn of Plenty, Wilhelmina (Queen of the Netherlands), Isidore De Rudder, Brussels, 1918, linen (material), Brussels point de gaze, h 245 cm × w 45 cm
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