Cherusque (collar) or cherusse: Lace border on neck of women’s decollete gowns or starched lace coll
Cherusque (collar) or cherusse: Lace border on neck of women’s decollete gowns or starched lace collarettes of court costume. Directoire and First Empire (1790-1815 CE)Josephine, Queen of Italy by Andrea AppianiKaroline Königin von BayernPrincess Augusta of Bavaria, 1807The Honourable Mrs. Graham by Thomas Gainsborough (18th century)Portrait of Dorothee van Herzselle by Caroline BarduaElizaveta, wife of Tsar Alexander I by MosnierPortrait of Princess Karoline Friederike Wilhemine von Baden (ca 1817) by the circle of Johann Christian von Mannlich Joséphine de Beauharnais by Henri-François RiesenerJulie Clary, Queen of Naples, with her daughter Zenaide BonaparteMaria Sukhovo-Kobylina by C.F.Muller, 1814 -- source link
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