Dear Arachneans,
from a painting it's seldom possible to say for sure which sort of
lace it is. But if we look on photos from for example Point of
d'Alencon from the time 1750 till 1800 it could be that this is the
lace from the dress we are speaking, it could be it must not.
I know from an article I couldn't find at the moment that Maria-
Theresia was fond of the Flemish laces. And I remember having read
somewhere that the dress she is wearing on the painting which is on
the title of S. Levey's book was the result of a competition by
Flemish lacemakers. Maria-Theresia got this dress by the Estates of
Flanders on the occasion of her investiture in Ghent in 1744. She was
than painted in the dress from Martin von Meytens and she gave this
painting to the city of Ghent.
As far as I know the dress claims today the Kunsthistorische Museum in
Vienna.
Ilske
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