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Although these joined lappets are not originally designed lappets, but rather were made from a length of lace, the lace is fine and delicate and the 18th century devotion to naturalism is embodied in the floral motif
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Title: Lappet
Date: 1740–70
Culture: Flemish
Medium: linen
Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the executors of the estate of Clara M. Blum in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Blum, 1966
Object Number: 2009.300.2056
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