Collar
While the shape of this collar is consistent with 17th century styles, and the lace and edging also date from then, the lace is pieced together in sections and has a raw edge at the neck opening, suggesting that it has been reconfigured from its original form. This could have been done later in the 17th century, as the shape suggests, or at any time since. It was common practice to recyle fine laces into more updated styles.
Artwork Details
- Title: Collar
- Date: 1645–55
- Culture: Italian
- 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: 2009.300.2058
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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1740s
Anna Maria Garthwaite
Peter Lekeux
1747
British
1615–20
British
ca. 1760
Italian
third quarter 17th century
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