Handkerchief
The Print and Pattern Archive gathers textile and dress objects noted for prints and patterns from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Cleveland Museum of Art collections, both CC0, refreshed monthly. Records carry garment family, era, season and significance labels from our pipeline, and every entry links its museum page; objects are cataloged, never appraised.
- Object
- Handkerchief
- Accession number
- 24.238
- Date
- ca. 1865
- Makers
- Convent of Notre Dame de Visitation
- Medium
- Cotton, bobbin lace
- Dimensions
- Overall (confirmed): 17 1/16 × 17 1/4 in. (43.3 × 43.8 cm)
- Classification
- Textiles-Laces
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of The Needle and Bobbin Club, 1924
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- House
- —
- Garment family
- accessories
- Era
- Crinoline era (1850–1869)
- Season
- —
- Material family
- cotton