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  • Album Page, Three Sketches of Building Details, Antwerp, August 17, 1887

    Vertical sheet illustrating three masonry façades, clockwise from top left: View from the rear of a “crow’s step” or “trap gevel” masonry building façade. The façade has been reinforced vertically…

  • Sidewall (Belgium), 1910–20

    Gambling paper. Design composed of playing cards, poker chips, and dice, with hearts, diamonds, clubs and spade motifs in a free, all over, haphazard arrangement. Printed in selvedge: “8208 Fabrication…

  • Fragment (Flanders, Belgium), 18th century

    Design of curving stem with flowers and leaves.

  • Border (Belgium), early–mid-17th century

    Deeply scalloped border with a vase of flowers in each scallop. Narrow bobbin lace in flower pattern joined to straight edge of border.

  • Cap Streamers (Belgium), mid-18th century

    Design of birds and a serpentine band ornamented with floral forms and large flowers.

  • Imitation Leather (Belgium), 1920

    Made by Peter Lecroix entirely by hand. A fine specimen of high relief imitation embossed leather. An oil paint “choke” applied by hand brush over gilt to tone it down.…

  • Panel (Belgium), ca. 1918

    Panel showing portrait of Woodrow Wilson, two steamers flying American flags, a scroll with the words, “L’Amerique genereuse vient au Secours de la Belgique,” and borders of flowers and leaves.

  • Cravat End (Belgium), 1700–1750

    Cravat end of Brussels-style lace with a hunter on horseback in the center, surrounded by fantastic foliage, trees and flowers, birds, a rabbit, a deer, and other animals. A figure…

  • Cravat End (Belgium), mid-18th century

    Fine lace cravat end depicting Cupid with a bow and arrow standing in a fountain in which swans are swimming; surrounded by an elaborate framing of swags and tassels, exotic…

  • Figure (Belgium), ca. 1900

    Figure of a woman dressed in dark green dress and cap with brown shawl and white apron, seated in a chair with lace-maker’s pillow on her lap. A small piece…

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