Baby's cap
Category
Costume
Date
1779
Materials
Lace, Lawn linen
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Killerton, Devon
NT 1363188
Summary
Baby's cap of fine linen lawn; caul gathered / gauged into holliepoint crown interupting hollie-point panels running from forehead to nape with picot; single mechlin bobbin lace frill only. 1779 (circa)
Provenance
made for donor's husband's great-great-great-aunt's baby, the 13th Duke of Suffolk, who died at two days old in 1779.