Handkerchief with a border of needle lace with four large and four small ovals; Handkerchief with a border of natural colored needle lace; Brussels gauze lace. Around a cross-shaped batiste center is a wide edging of lace with hollow scallops; which are cut over by four large corner ovals; interspersed by four smaller ones. The scallops are composed of 'rails'; a wheel rim and a leaf twig. The spiers are crowned by a leaf palette. The ovals filled with asterisks and wheels are closed by a scalloped edge; which consists of daisies; among which leaves hang. Hollow and convex c-volutes form the inner edge.; anonymous; Brussels; c. 1870 - c. 1890; linen (material); Brussels point de gaze; h 37.5 cm x w 37.5 cm