Object Details
- facilitator
- Hoover, Herbert
- described
- Albert I King of Belgium
- Elisabeth Queen of Belgium
- manufacturer
- Maison Daimeries-Petitjean
- designer
- Wytsman, Juliette Trullemans
- Description
- This fan leaf is monogrammed A for Belgian King Albert I and E for Queen Elisabeth surmounted by the Belgian royal crowns and encircled by laurel as a symbol for victory. The dates 1914-1915 are on a shield held by the Belgian Lion in the center of the fan leaf below the Belgian and American flags. The names of the designer Juliette Wytsman, and the manufacturer and dealer Maison Daimeries-Petitjean are worked into the design. The fan leaf is an example of fine quality Point de Gaze needle lace made by Belgian lace makers during World War I. The fan leaf has never been mounted to fan sticks.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Vicomtesse de Beughem
- made during
- 1915-1916
- inscribed in lace
- 1915
- 1914
- ID Number
- TE.E383969
- catalog number
- E383969
- accession number
- 172208
- Object Name
- lace
- fan leaf
- war lace
- lace, war lace
- Object Type
- lace
- Physical Description
- cotton (overall material)
- needle lace (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 in x 17 in; 12.7 cm x 43.18 cm
- place made
- Belgium
- Related Publication
- Kellogg, Charlotte (Hoffman). Bobbins of Belgium: A Book of Belgian Lace, Lace-Workers, Lace-Schools and Lace-Villages
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- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- War Laces
- Lace
- Art
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- web subject
- Lace
- European History
- depicted
- Flags
- used
- Cotton
- related event
- World War I
- Record ID
- nmah_620271
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-777c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
