Handkerchief with a border of needle lace with four palms and four diamonds; Handkerchief with a border of natural colored needle lace; Brussels gauze lace. A broad lace strip runs around a batiste center piece in the shape of a Maltese cross. Four palms and four diamonds stand along the inner edge; connected by fine streamers. The corners are formed by deep shells with a flowing V-shaped volute; which is cut over by a c-shaped branch with an outward-facing rose and aster and an inward-facing snowball. There are three hanging lilies on the center of the sides. The outer circumference is fairly straight.; anonymous; Brussels; c. 1880; linen (material); Brussels point de gaze; h 36 cm x w 36 cm