Wed Jul 28, 2021 12:11 AM

July 28, 2021

When some of the museum collections I dig through were being acquired, it was frequent practice of dealers to sell textiles in fragments and pieces. As a result, we find scraps separated in different museums. Some twins happen because the same patterns are used but some are actual sections of the same piece.

We just looked at this piece of bobbin lace originally from Ida Schiff’s collection now owned by the Cleveland Museum of Art (link to that post) https://www.facebook.com/213910152612073/posts/784622165540866/

Here is the same lace in the Cooper Hewitt Museum (donated by Marian Hague.) http://cprhw.tt/o/2CFQ8/

There isn’t anything on that particular lace, but I don’t seem to have linked the article from the February 1921 Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that, in combination with a similar article in the Bulletin from Cleveland, is the source of most of the information I know on the Schiff collection’s dispersal in the US. Here it is for those that wish to read it. “Laces from the lda Schiff Collection” by Frances Morris posted by JSTOR onto Archive as part of their free early journals program. https://archive.org/details/jstor-3254797 Also available at JSTOR https://doi.org/10.2307/3254797