Exhibition

 

Lace: The Art of Needle and Bobbin

Higbee Gallery, March 23, 2007 - January 6, 2008

Jean Druesedow, Curator

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evening Dress

American, about 1929

Cream silk charmeuse trimmed with blonde lace, beads, rhinestones and velvet ribbons.

Kent State University Museum

Gift of Martha McCaskey Selhorst, 1996.58.314

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evening Dress

American, about 1912

White satin trimmed with machine-made lace and silver embroidery.

Kent State University Museum

Gift of Martha McCaskey Selhorst, 1996.58.342

 

 

 

 

 

 

Artist Unknown, Copy of a French Original, about 1660

Portrait of a Young Lord

Oil on canvas

37 ½” x 32”

Kent State University Museum

Silverman/Rodgers Collection, 1983.4.

The young boy’s cravat is of raised Venetian needle lace, a technique fully developed by the mid-1650s.  An edict of 1656 assigned one quarter of the proceeds from trade in various passementeries and “points de Venise” to Louis XIV.  The extravagant costumes of the French court called for a heavy and elaborate lace, and gros point de venise gained temporary dominance in the fashionable market over Flemish bobbin laces.  The red baldric worn across his chest is trimmed with silver lace.

 

 

Louis XVI-style Commode

French, 19th century

Mahogany, marble and gilded bronze

Kent State University Museum

Silverman/Rodgers Collection, 1983.4.

 

 

Empire-style Candelabra

European, 19th century

Bronze, gilded bronze and marble

Kent State University Museum

Silverman/Rodgers collection, 1983.4.310ab