Object Number: N8296

Collection: Applied Art

Object Name: lace, needlepoint

Description: Needlepoint 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. Measurements .a - length: 625 mm, width 102 mm THERE ARE 2 PIECES OF LACE WITH THE SAME NUMBER IN DRAWER 17)