Handkerchief or neck-nose cloth of batist and finished around with a strip of bobbin lace with a wavy branch and curling side branches with a peony; Handkerchief or nose-cloth of batist finished around with a strip of natural-colored bobbin lace: Flanders lace. Square model. The batist is marked in one of the corners with the crowned text: 'MW 6'. Lace: the repeating and continuous pattern consists of a wavy branch with curling leaves and under each wave crest and in every wave valley a curling side branch with a peony. The motifs are made in linen with openwork edges and some cut-outs. The motifs are connected by a five-hole ground. The top and bottom of the strip are finished straight; with the bottom (outside) provided with picots.; anonymous; Southern Netherlands; c. 1640 - c. 1674; linen (material); Flanders lace; h 81 cm x w 83 cm