Code: 10661
This is a box of unused embroidered lawn handkerchiefs circa 1900.
Four handkerchiefs, all neatly pinned to pink tissue paper.
All have a floral design with a Bulgarian crown and 'MI' embroidered to one corner.
All have a hand made Valenciennes lace border. Embroidery has needle lace fillings to motifs.
Box measures 34.5cms square. Handkerchiefs 47.5 cms square.
Provenance: Maria Immakulata of Württemberg, Archduchess of Austria-Tuscany, Duchess of Württemberg (1878-1968).
The fourth daughter of Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria-Tuscany, Maria Immakulata was married to the Duke of Wurttemberg in the chapel of the Vienna Hofburg in 1900.
The bride's extensive trousseau was exibited for several days in the Archduke Rainer Palace in Vienna and was described in detail in the 'Weiner Salonblatt' of October 28th, 1900 - 'The finest embroidery adorned the batiste handkerchiefs, square and round'.
This came from the estate of Dr Alexander Eugen, Duke of Wurttemburg (1933-2024).
