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Auction: DENTELLE LINGE DE MAISON BRODERIE BLANCHE EVENTAILS
Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Place: Hôtel Drouot, Salle 13
9 rue Drouot, 75009 Paris
Directions:  http://tinyurl.com/85b78gl
Time: Household Linen (lots #1 to #110b) will start at 11:00 AM Paris time
The lace section  (lots 111 to 438) will start at 1:30 PM Paris time
Many of the ‘Household Linen’ lots have elaborate lace trimmings, so don’t ignore the first session.
Catalogs: 
https://tinyurl.com/y83maj4c (choose between French and English when looking at individual lots)
Public Viewing:  Tuesday, March 22, 2022 from 11:00 to 18:00 Paris time
Viewing room: https://visitesdesalles.gazette-drouot.com/visite/imagesVisite/117240?offset=0&max=50
Auction by:  Coutau-Bégarie
60, avenue de La Bourdonnais – 75007 Paris – France
paris@debaecque.fr Tel : 01 45 56 12 20
information@coutaubegarie.com – https://www.coutaubegarie.com
Sales Contact: Mélissa Seminara, +33 (0)1 45 56 12 20
Lace Expert: Mme Claude Vuille, Member de la FNEPSA,
claude_vu@hotmail.com, +33 (0)6 74 66 39 05

This auction must set a record for the number of lace pieces offered, and many are lots. Following are a few items I find interesting:

Lots 40 and 41: Burano runner and square tablecloth.
Lot 125: Reticella border with double-headed eagle design and raised work, probably early.
Lot 135: Polychrome Buratto tablecover with naturalistic colored embroidery.
Lot 137: Bib-fronted collar of Milanese, 3rd quarter 17th c. The linen is a later attachment.
Lot 140: A long Gros Point border, looks relatively intact.
Lot 145: Interesting Milanese border in white, pale blue and pale green colors.
Lot 153: A complete set of lappets, cap back and flounce, Flemish bobbinlace, late 17th c. It’s a little unclear as to how this was constructed.
Lot 155: A Brussels bobbinlace cap back, very dense design.
Lot 156: Matching lappets of Brussels Point d’Angleterre, early 18th c.
Lot 164: Two borders, Brussels and Brabant, 2nd quarter 18th c.
Lot 168: A complete set of lappets, cap back and flounce, Brussels bobbinlace with droschel ground.
Lot 169: Very long, wide Brussels bobbinlace flounce with droschel ground.
Lot 170: Wide probable Argentan border, perhaps made for an Alb. The ~2 foot width is common in pieces such as this. See log 171 for another Argentan piece.
Lot 180: Nicely done Valenciennes lappets, one set with attached ruffle.
Lot 242: Very long, very light Alençon border.
Lot 256: Catalonian black blonde mantilla.
Lot 261: Very unusual black Duchesse de Bruxelles mantilla.
Lot 284: Point de Gaze border in a Compagnie des Indes/Verdé-Delisle & Cie box. This type of provenance is rare.
Lot 321: Point de Gaze skirt
Lot 322: Point de Gaze rectangular shawl. See other rectangular shawls such as lots 323, 324, 325, others.
Lot 369: Interesting guipure fan, not sure where this is from.
Lot 373: Maltese parasol cover.
Lot 401: This might be Point Colbert, we just don’t know enough about that lace to say for certain.
Lot 407: A whole bunch of metallic bobbinlace fragments.
Lots 409 and 410: Colorful Eastern European and Russian bobbinlace – wish they were longer.
Lot 413: Very identifiable War Lace pillow cover with dog design in Point de Paris (See Kellogg, Bobbins of Belgium, who identifies the designer)
Lot 414: A Halas square – these don’t come up very often.
Lot 415: Tunesian Chebka borders.

If you wish to purchase any of the lace and cannot come to Paris, there are three ways to do so – these notes are from Claude.

Online bidding with Drouot Live:
If you want to bid by yourself you will have to create an account at Drouot Live, see the faq at https://www.drouotonline.com/faq. If you wish to register for this specific auction please follow the instructions at https://auth.drouotonline.com/ to get authorized, and be sure to register before 9:00 AM, on March 23rd. Then you will be able to follow the sale with a real time viewing of the auction directly from your computer. You can bid by clicking the appropriate bidding price when the auctioneer reaches the lot you are interested in. For live auctions the view on your computer has a few seconds delay but the auctioneer is used to it and he will wait a few second when somebody is bidding through the net. This works well as long as the internet equipment has no connection troubles.
You can also register on the Invaluable site.

Phone bidding:
Otherwise, you can ask to be called when the auctioneer is approaching the particular lot number. A member of the staff will phone you a few minutes before the item will be on sale and you can instruct him to bid on you behalf, in real time.  Both of these possibilities are free of charge and will not have any impact to the final hammer price.

Absentee Bid:
You can also submit an Absentee Bid Form (an order bid) and the auction house will execute it by bidding for you behalf until the price has reached your nominated amount. If bidding doesn’t reach this amount, you win the item for the price at which the bidding ceased. If you are the winner, a member of the staff will send you by email your final invoice. They will send your item to the appropriate postal address as soon as payment is received.
You can also contact Claude directly if you want to leave a bid.

In addition to the auction price, the successful bidder (buyer) must pay the following sales costs:
28,80% TTC (buyers premium 24% + TVA 20%) on top of the hammer price.
Purchase via the Drouot Live platform:
For any purchase via Drouot Live, additional costs of 1.5% excluding tax will be applied (i.e.
1.8% including tax).
Purchase via the Invaluable platform:
For any purchase via Invaluable, additional costs of 3% excluding tax will be applied (i.e.
3.6% including tax).

Auction: linge, dentelles, tissus, mode (sur le thème de la), vintage, bagages et accessoires de mode
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Place: Hôtel Drouot, Salle 13
9 rue Drouot, 75009 Paris
Directions:  http://tinyurl.com/85b78gl
Time: Household Linen and Embroidered Handkerchief sections (lots #1 to #100) will start at 11:00 AM Paris time
The lace section  (lots 101 to 303) will start at 1:30 PM Paris time
Vintage section (lots 304 to 489) will start around 4:00 PM Paris time
Catalogs: 
https://tinyurl.com/urffw3cw (choose between French and English)
Public Viewing:  Tuesday, October 26, 2021 from 11:00 to 18:00 Paris time
Claude Vuille has sent a link to the viewing room, 360 degree span:
http://visitesdesalles.drouot.com/visite/imagesVisite/115781?offset=0&max=50
Auction by:  De Baecque et Associés
132, boulevard Raspail / 70, rue Vendôme, 75006 / 69006 Paris / Lyon France
paris@debaecque.fr Tel : 01 42 46 52 02 / 04 72 16 29 44
Sale contact: Magdeleine de Laage
mdl@debaecque.fr, +33 (0)1 58 40 82 92
Lace Expert: Mme Claude Vuille, Member de la FNEPSA,
claude_vu@hotmail.com, +33 (0)6 74 66 39 05

This auction includes items from a private collection, and from other vendors. Early laces are a strong component. Following are a few items I find interesting:

Lot 126 Panel of Punto in Aria including animals and birds, early 17th c. See Lot 127 for another Punto in Aria piece.
Lot 145 Three ‘Van Dyck’ borders, Flemish, 2nd quarter 17th c.
Lot 147 Two borders of ‘cauliflower’ design, Antwerp, ranging from 1660 to 1680.
Lot 163 Panel of Gros Point, complete with a symmetric pattern. I’ve seen several of these come up for auction in the past few years, and am not sure of their original purpose.
Lot 169 Point de France flounce
Lot 173 Very interesting fontage with two lappets, late 17th c, Flemish bobbinlace in the style of later Point de France. An extremely rare piece.
Lot 174 Brussels wide flounce, early 18th c.
Lot 186 Interesting figural Argentan border, including angels blowing trumpets
Lots 187, 188, 189, 198 Complete ‘heads’ of matching lappets, cap back, and ruffled border are extraordinarily rare, but this auction has four of them!!!
Lot 229 Valenciennes de Gand handkerchief, where the center cloth is also bobbinlace.
Lot 230 Alençon handkerchief
Lot 246 Wedding shawl, Point d’Angleterre, with provenance, dated ~1883.

If you wish to purchase any of the lace and cannot come to Paris, there are three ways to do so – these notes are from Claude.

Online bidding with Drouot Live:
If you want to bid by yourself you will have to create an account at Drouot Live, see the faq at https://www.drouotonline.com/faq. If you wish to register for this specific auction please follow the instructions at https://auth.drouotonline.com/ to get authorized, and be sure to register before 9:00 AM, October 27, 2021. Then you will be able to follow the sale with a real time viewing of the auction directly from your computer. You can bid by clicking the appropriate bidding price when the auctioneer reaches the lot you are interested in. For live auctions the view on your computer has a few seconds delay but the auctioneer is used to it and he will wait a few second when somebody is bidding through the net. This works well as long as the internet equipment has no connection troubles.
You can also register on the Invaluable site.

Phone bidding:
Otherwise, you can ask to be called when the auctioneer is approaching the particular lot number. A member of the staff will phone you a few minutes before the item will be on sale and you can instruct him to bid on you behalf, in real time.  Both of these possibilities are free of charge and will not have any impact to the final hammer price.

Absentee Bid:
You can also submit an Absentee Bid Form (an order bid) and the auction house will execute it by bidding for you behalf until the price has reached your nominated amount. If bidding doesn’t reach this amount, you win the item for the price at which the bidding ceased. If you are the winner, a member of the staff will send you by email your final invoice. They will send your item to the appropriate postal address as soon as payment is received.

In addition to the auction price, the successful bidder (buyer) must pay the following sales costs:

• Voluntary sale outside Paris: 25% including VAT (including 20% ​​VAT except for 5.5% VAT books)
• Voluntary sale in Paris: 27% TTC (including 20% ​​VAT except for books VAT 5.5%)
• Fees may be added for live buyers depending on the prices of the platforms used (in particular: inter-auction 3% HT, Drouot Live, 1.5% HT)

Auction: Lace – House Linen – Embroidery
Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Place: la Galerie Deux 6
66 Avenue de la Bourdonnais, 75007 Paris
Time: lots 1 to 105 from 11:00 to 12:00 (household linens)
Lots 106 to 455 from 14:00 to 18:00 (lace and embroidery)
Catalogs: 
https://tinyurl.com/3cvm7mwc (Invaluable)
https://tinyurl.com/7pkrfhn6 (English, Drouot Live)
Public Viewing:  May 18, 2021 from 11:00 to 18:00
Auction by:  Coutau-Bégarie & Associés
Sale contact: Mrs. Mélissa Seminara,
information@coutaubegarie.com, +33 (0)1 45 56 12 20 (24  hours before the sale)
Expert: Mme Claude Vuille, Member de la FNEPSA,
claude_vu@hotmail.com, +33 (0)6 74 66 39 05

This auction includes the second part of items from the collection of Mme Sonja Dorfmeister,, and the 4th part of the collection of Mme Rieta Alkema. Plus other items including many lots with multiple borders. Here are a few items that I find interesting:

Lot 94 Milanese border with extensive figural work
Lot 124 Figural Punto in Aria and Cutwork border, identical to an example in the Met. See also Lot 409
Lot 131 Polychrome Buratto border.
Lot 134 2 borders of Punto in Aria one from the Lescure and one from the Simeon collections.
Lot 136 Early “Van Dyke” needlelace border, likely English.
Lot 129 Pulled thread embroidery panel ex. coll. Margaret Simeon.
Lot 146 Gros Point panel, ex. coll. Margaret Simeon.
Lot 156 Very long border of Italian ‘Rose Point’, although the term is a bit vague.
Lot 177 Elaborate Metallic bobbinlace.
Lot 184 Wide Brabant border.
Lot 195 Joined Malines lappets, 1730-40.
Lot 256 Alençon handkerchief.
Lot 271 Interesting Honiton handkerchief.
Lot 364 Point de Gaze border, very wide, no raised work.
Lot 378 Very long border of Youghal.
Lot 406 Two borders in Point d’Angleterre by Léfebure.
Lot 407 One of these borders is Point Colbert with the original box.
Lot 413 Polychrome Chantilly border.
Lot 422 Margareten Spitze sculpture by Mrs. Margarete Naumann. Pretty amazing.

If you wish to purchase any of the lace and cannot come to Paris, there are three ways to do so – these notes are from Claude.

Online bidding with Drouot Live:
If you want to bid by yourself you will have to create an account at Drouot. Then you will be able to follow the sale with a real time viewing of the auction directly from your computer. You can bid by clicking the appropriate bidding price when the auctioneer reaches the lot you are interested in. If you wish to register for the auction please follow the instructions at http://tinyurl.com/zl5beow to create a Drouot Live Account. You must also register for this specific auction before 9:00 AM, May 19, 2021 which can be done at the catalog site given above. For live auctions the view on your computer has a few seconds delay but the auctioneer is used to it and he will wait a few second when somebody is bidding through the net. This works well as long as the internet equipment has no connection troubles.
You can also register on the Invaluable site.

Phone bidding:
Otherwise, you can ask to be called when the auctioneer is approaching the particular lot number. A member of the staff will phone you a few minutes before the item will be on sale and you can instruct him to bid on you behalf, in real time.  Both of these possibilities are free of charge and will not have any impact to the final hammer price.

Absentee Bid:
You can also submit an Absentee Bid Form (an order bid) and the auction house will execute it by bidding for you behalf until the price has reached your nominated amount. If bidding doesn’t reach this amount, you win the item for the price at which the bidding ceased. If you are the winner, a member of the staff will send you by email your final invoice. We will send your item to the appropriate postal address as soon as we will get your payment.

Buyer fee’s is 28.8% TTC (24% + VAT at 20%) – book sales have a 5.5%VAT.

Auction: Haute Couture Luxe Vintage – Dentelles et linge de maison
Date: Friday, November 27, 2020
Place: This is sponsored by Drouot, which is now closed, so the auction is entirely online.
Time: 13:30 for lace, lots 1-128
15:00 for Vintage items, lots 200-455
Catalogs: https://tinyurl.com/y3w8rmhb
Click “Book mode” at the top of this page to get English translations. These have the usual DeepL peculiarities.
Auction by: De Baecque et Associés
Tel. 04 72 16 29 44 / 01 42 46 52 02
phone during the auction, 01 48 00 20 03
email: paris@debaecque.fr
Lace and linens expert: Claude Vuille, claude_vu@hotmail.com, +33 (0)6 74 66 39 05
Vintage – Haute Couture – Maroquinerie expert: Claire
Chassine-Lambert, claire@clairechassinelambert.com, 06 75 03 05 93

Here are some listing that I find interesting:

Lot 19 A reticella/Punto in Aria border, Jane Page collection with interesting bird motifs.
Lot 20 Reticella insertion including raised work, with Genoese bobbinlace border.
Lot 23 3 borders of Punto in Aria some with figural bird motifs.
Lot 36 Large border (probably a furnishing flounce) of Point de France, 3.2 m x 56 cm. Interesting how these often are around 10 feet long, usually cut down from longer pieces.
Lot 41 Valenciennes lappets with connecting band, round-hole mesh.
Lot 66 Polychrome buratto bordered cloth – these are rare, but a few complete examples have come up recently.
Lot 70 An interesting blonde headdress with no ground. I haven’t seen anything like this before.
Lot 80 4.95 m x 14 cm border of Alençon.
Lot 94 Alençon handkerchief.
Lot 112 A bertha and large collar of Point de Gaze, good design and technique.
Lot 118 Rosaline perlé rectangular shawl.
Lot 119 A Beveran border and one of Point de Paris with a ‘Made in Belgium’ tag.

This is a live auction, and you must register by Friday, November 27th at 13:30. On the website, there’s a ‘register’ button for each lot – but you only have to do this once and it will apply to all lots. You can leave a bid on the website, or bid online live when the auction starts. There might be telephone bidding, but I’m not sure how that would work.

Because of the Covid shutdown two shipping services are authorized to pick up and send your wins. Be very careful, this can be extremely expensive. If you want to pick them up yourself, you must make an appointment. Drouot will store lots for free up to two weeks after the shutdown ends.

Buyer fee’s is 27% TTC. Drouot Live Platform additional sales cost, 1.5%. “Live Auction” additional cost is 3%.

Auction: DENTELLE – LINGE DE MAISON – BRODERIE BLANCHE
Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Place: Hôtel Drouot, Salle 2
9 rue Drouot, 75009 Paris
Directions:  http://tinyurl.com/85b78gl
Time: 11:00 AM to noon
2:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Catalogs: 
https://tinyurl.com/yy2qh2ow (French)
https://tinyurl.com/y4jdgpqy (English)
They are using the DeepL online translation software, and you can access the original French version on the description page. Some terms are quite creative: bobbins are “spindles”, Longs Métrages is translated as “Feature Films” and Volant is translated as “Steering Wheel”. Barbes (lappets) are “Beards”. Chantilly is occasionally described as “Whipped Cream” (see the recipe at the end of the post).
Public Viewing:  October 10th and 12th from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Auction by:  Coutau-Bégarie & Associés
Sale contact: Mrs. Mélissa Seminara,
information@coutaubegarie.com, +33 (0)1 45 56 12 20 (24  hours before the sale)
Expert: Mme Claude Vuille, Member de la FNEPSA,
claude_vu@hotmail.com, +33 (0)6 74 66 39 05

This auction includes items from the collections of Mme Sonja Dorfmeister, and Mme Rieta Alkema. Many lots are collections of fragments, and several pieces are from well known past collections. Here are a few examples that I find interesting:

Lot 94 A rare early macramé border fragment.
Lot 99 Some interesting polychrome buratto. Note sure what ‘document’ means.
Lot 101 An unusually complete example of pulled thread red embroidery, perhaps silk.
Lot 108 A very dense Flemish border.
Lot 125 Large panel of Gros Point.
Lot 130 Large flounce of Coraline.
Lot 133 Point de France border, Bérain style.
Lot 145 Two Jewish silk “Talit” ornaments in needlelace.
Lot 161 Rare Argentan Cap back and matching lappets. It’s fairly common to see lappets with a matching band, but a matching cap back/lappet set is much rarer.
Lot 195 Burano? silk flounce, late 18th c. Silk laces of this period rarely survive.
Lot 212 3 interesting Valenciennes de Gand borders.
Lot 229 10 meters of a wide (22 cm) border of Duchesse de Bruges.
Lot 239 Dress flounce of application on machine net, described as English – the motifs could derive from Honiton.
Lot 263 Lots of butterflies in different techniques.
Lot 272 Chantilly long gloves, quite rare to see this form.
Lot 296 Large square Duchesse de Bruxelles shawl.
Lot 297 Interesting Burano apron with matching collar and cuffs.
Lot 312 Excellent Point de Gaze rectangular shawl.
Lot 317 Interesting Beveren liturgical flounce
Lot 331 Needlelace War Lace panel. See also Lot 330.
Lot 332 Triptych of figural needlelace, seems to resemble Zele work.
Lots 341-351 Excellent Eastern European samples.

If you wish to purchase any of the lace and cannot come to Paris, there are three ways to do so – these notes are from Claude.

Online bidding with Drouot Live:
If you want to bid by yourself you will have to create an account at Drouot. Then you will be able to follow the sale with a real time viewing of the auction directly from your computer. You can bid by clicking the appropriate bidding price when the auctioneer reaches the lot you are interested in. If you wish to register for the auction please follow the instructions at http://tinyurl.com/zl5beow to create a Drouot Live Account. You must also register for this specific auction before 9:00 AM, October 13, 2020 – log in and go to https://tinyurl.com/yyfbybzf.  The view on your computer has a few seconds delay but the auctioneer is used to it and he will wait a few second when somebody is bidding through the net. This works well as long as the internet equipment has no connection troubles.

Phone bidding:
Otherwise, you can ask to be called when the auctioneer is approaching the particular lot number. A member of the staff will phone you a few minutes before the item will be on sale and you can instruct him to bid on you behalf, in real time.  Both of these possibilities are free of charge and will not have any impact to the final hammer price.

Absentee Bid:
You can also submit an Absentee Bid Form (an order bid) and the auction house will execute it by bidding for you behalf until the price has reached your nominated amount. If bidding doesn’t reach this amount, you win the item for the price at which the bidding ceased. If you are the winner, a member of the staff will send you by email your final invoice. We will send your item to the appropriate postal address as soon as we will get your payment.

Buyer fee’s is 28.8% TTC (24% + VAT at 20%) – book sales have a 5.5%VAT.

Recipe for Chantilly Cream:
1 cup heavy cream
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon granulated sugar

Beat cream, vanilla, and sugar with an electric mixer to form soft peaks. Refrigerate covered until serving.