The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Accessory set

Date:: ca. 1850
Culture:: Irish
Medium:: cotton
Dimensions:: (a): 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm) (b): 13 in. (33 cm)
Credit Line:: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund, 1922
Accession Number:: 2009.300.1665a–d

This artwork is not on display

Description

The varieties of plant forms and flowers represented, their naturalism and the three-dimensionality set this extraordinary example of Irish crochet lace apart from the more static designs of later examples
See also
What
Cotton (11,987)

Accessories (982)
Where
Europe (148,586)

Republic of Ireland (610)
When
A.D. 1800-1900 (80,185)
In the Museum
Costume Institute (34,166)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Great Britain and Ireland, 1800–1900 A.D.

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