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Pair of Engageantes1850-1870

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Two miniature doll dresses with white cotton bodices and full ivory lace skirts with scalloped hems, laid flat side by side against a gray background
Miniature child's or doll's dress with plain white cotton bodice and short puffed sleeves, gathered at the waist into a full skirt of cream lace with floral and scrolling needle-run pattern and scalloped hem.
Cream-colored needle lace flounce with dense floral and foliate pattern, draped in soft folds against a dark background, with scalloped lower edge.
Small doll's dress with a plain white cotton bodice and short puffed sleeves, attached to a full skirt of cream bobbin lace with floral and foliate needle-run patterns and a scalloped hem.
Cream-colored bobbin lace with a scalloped border, featuring densely worked floral and scrolling foliate motifs against a fine mesh ground.

Unknown, Pair of Engageantes, 1850-1870, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of the Estate of Helen Crocker Russell, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Pair of Engageantes
Place Made
Belgium, Ghent
Date Made
1850-1870
Medium
Linen Valenciennes de Gand bobbin lace
Dimensions
Length (a-b): 6 1/2 in. (16.51 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Estate of Helen Crocker Russell
Accession Number
M.67.50.31a-b
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Maeder, Edward et al.. An Elegant Art: Fashion & Fantasy in the Eighteenth Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983.