Monogrammed Fan Leaf with Designer’s Name
Monogrammed Fan Leaf with Designer’s Name
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- 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
- Object Name
- lace
- fan leaf
- war lace
- lace, war lace
- Object Type
- lace
- made during
- 1915-1916
- inscribed in lace
- 1915
- 1914
- facilitator
- Hoover, Herbert
- described
- Albert I King of Belgium
- Elisabeth Queen of Belgium
- manufacturer
- Maison Daimeries-Petitjean
- designer
- Wytsman, Juliette Trullemans
- place made
- Belgium
- 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
- ID Number
- TE.E383969
- catalog number
- E383969
- accession number
- 172208
- Credit Line
- Gift of Vicomtesse de Beughem
- subject
- Lace
- European History
- Flags
- Cotton
- World War I
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- War Laces
- Lace
- Art
- Textiles
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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