Demonstration border, Maison Lefébure, Point... - Lot 341 - Coutau-Bégarie

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Demonstration border, Maison Lefébure, Point... - Lot 341 - Coutau-Bégarie
Demonstration border, Maison Lefébure, Point de Gaze, Belgium, late 19th century. Needlepoint lace in cream-colored cotton, each end carefully finished with original, and demonstrating with mastery the quality of work as well as the originality of the designs of this period. Decorated with beautiful flight of flexible branches loaded with a multitude of flowers and leaves embroidered in overthickness, punctuated with beautiful orchids disheveled with hearts decorated with modes, the ends of the branches forming cartridges decorated with various points of which certain points of a great originality. Dim. 2,30 m x 23 cm (good condition) To be compared with the lace illustrated on p. 308, pl. 369 of the catalog "Calais, musée de la Dentelle et de la Mode" Mrs Anne Kraatz. Provenance: sale of October 3, 1989, Lefébure fund, Ionesco study in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
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