Vintage Clothing & Textiles from Museum Collections
Catalog Information: 166 lots with images | View lots
Date: March 24, 2010
Auction House:
Location:
15 Columbus Avenue (at 60th Street)
New York, NY
USA
10019
Phone: 802.376.7166
Fax: 802.463.3333
Email: bob@augusta-auction.com
Viewing Notes:
INSPECTION: The Property is exhibited for inspection by Bidders prior to the sale. Preview will be held at the Auction House, St. Paul Auditorium, 60th St. & Columbus Ave., New York City on Tuesday, March 23rd from 2PM to 7PM & on the morning of sale from 9AM until Noon. Buyers assume responsibility to inspect the Property and make their own decisions as to the nature, quality and value of the property. It is the Bidder's sole responsibility to be fully satisfied about the characteristics and condition of the property, including matters relating to age, authenticity, restoration, repair or alteration prior to executing any bid.
Sale Notes:
Our spring museum sale features textile treasures from many of the top museum collections in the US. Most of the clothing and textile lots at our sale are de-accessions or museum holdings that have not been on view to the public for half a century or more. All are sold with no minumum bids and no reserves. Museums with objects in our sale include the Museum of Fine Arts, The Chrysler Museum, the National Heritage Museum, the Montclair Art Museum and major additions from the historic costume collection of the Brooklyn Art Museum.
Lot 1: FOUR HANDMADE LACE HANKIES, MID-LATE 19TH C.
All w/ fine linen centers: 1 cruciform center & Pt de Gaz deep edge, 12"X11.5"; 1 square center, 1.75" Venetian needle lace edge, 12.5"X12.5"; 1 scallop center, deep boarder Brussels mixed lace, 13.75"X13.75"; 1 narrow boarder Brussels mixed lace, 1 [...more]
Lot 7: BELGIAN MIXED LACE WEDDING VEIL, EARLY 20TH C
Veil attaches to shoulder & widens behind bride, white silk chiffon center panel, both sides bordered by gradually wider Belgian bobbin lace applique in scrolls, foliage & flowers, across veil bottom & along the sides, total of 136" flounce of Pt [...more]
Lot 8: TWO KNOTTED NET LACE ALTAR FRONTALS, SPAIN, 17TH C
Both w/ plain linen tops & deep border of dense knotted linen filet lace: 1 border of geometric & stylized plant motifs w/in diagonal lines, linen bottom fringe, 25.5"X99.5"; 1 border of groups of birds & deer alternating w/ ginko-like & flowering tr [...more]
Lot 10: DECONSTRUCTED BRUSSELS MIXED LACE SKIRT, c. 1900
Cream handmade bobbin lace worked in scrolls, ferns & garden flowers, Pt de Gaz needle lace flowers & floral cartouches: trained skirt w/ waistband unpicked; t/w same pattern lace flounces in several lengths, totalling 5 yds & misc. lace fragments, g [...more]
Lot 11: SILVER EMBROIDERED TABLECOVER, 1870-1890
Fine mesh white cotton tulle, embroidered w/ silver thread & silver foil, round medallion center, large botehs each corner, cloth in 4 sections w/ different repeating designs in each, narrow border of meandering vine & flowers, 55"X62", (2 large brow [...more]
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