Christening robe

Baby's robe, cambric fabric with white cotton embroidery, drawn work, and needlepoint lace. The V-shaped bodice front and short sleeves have floral devices with borders of small squares and medallions containing minute rosettes and diapers. The skirt is decorated with a vertical arrangement of a central band filled with baskets of flowers on diaper grounds, flanked by wavy or interlacing floral stems, with festoons and rosettes below. There is a narrow scalloped edging worked with similar stems. The squares, mdallions, and flowers have openwork centres of lace stitches.