Cambric christening robe, cotton embroidery and needlepoint lace with floral patterns (Ayrshire work?), English, first half of the 19th century. Baby's robe, cambric fabric with white cotton embroidery, drawn work, and needlepoint lace. The V-shaped bodic

Cambric christening robe, cotton embroidery and needlepoint lace with floral patterns (Ayrshire work?), English, first half of the 19th century. 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.  Embroidered cambric.