The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 18, 2025

Lace Edging

1740–1760

France, Alençon

Needle lace (Point d'Alençon)
Average: 8 x 179.1 cm (3 1/8 x 70 1/2 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Edward B. Greene, G. G. Wade and J. H. Wade Jr. for the Ellen Garretson Wade Memorial Collection 1923.1007
Location: Not on view

Description

With its flowing ribbon and garland pattern, this lace edging is from the late Louis 15th period or early Louis 16th period.
  • Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1923.1007