Object Number: N8296.a-b

Collection: Applied Art

Object Name: border

Description: Lace border, cream linen. Dense repetitive pattern of opposing scrolls beneath stylised flower, interpsersed with narrower flower motif on stem: lower edge scalloped. Narrow linen heading of different linen. Italian - Genoese or Milanese (THE ABOVE INFO IS FROM THE RECORD CARD. IT DOES NOT TALLY WITH THE ENTRY IN REGISTER WHICH READS: 3 lengths of tape lace, early 20th century. Given anonymously. THERE ARE 2 PIECES OF LACE WITH THE SAME NUMBER IN DRAWER 17 WHICH HAVE NOW BEEN LABELLED .a AND .b)