Batist handkerchief with embroidery and a strip of machine lace; Handkerchief made of natural-colored batist with a machine lace insert on two sides: machine tulle piercing on machine tulle. The handkerchief is trimmed all around with a narrow machine-edged edge. The handkerchief is decorated with (machine?) Embroidery in the corner along the inserts - white work with plumetis - and with tulle inserts in openwork parts. The embroidery pattern in the corner is symmetrical and consists of two openwork leaves that form a V and between which some calyxes rise. At the top of each open-worked leaf is a branch with three open-worked rosette flowers and panicles. The handkerchief is marked with a sewn-on label of cotton; on which the number 77 is embroidered with red thread (machine).; anonymous; Netherlands; c. 1840 - c. 1850; cotton (textile); embroidering; h 37 cm x w 35.5 cm w 1.5 cm w 0.8 cm