Caption:
Strip of needlepoint lace with floral scrolls, Strip of natural-colored Venetian needlepoint lace gros point. Symmetrical pattern relative to the center axis with palmettes, rosettes, tendrils, leaves and volutes. The motifs are connected with an irregular bar ground with picots. Fullwork with festoon stitching decorated with recesses and strongly raised cordons. The top is trimmed with a border of bobbin lace. The bottom is finished with a straight picot border., anonymous, Venice, c. 1660 - c. 1675, Venetian gros point (heavy raised Venetian lace), length 203 cm × width 28 cm