Details
A magnificent complete needlelace flounce, with a large number of motifs including knights and ladies on horseback, cockerels, stags, peacocks, griffin, figures on plinths and kneeling soldiers with lances, many of the motifs with raised cordonnets--136 x 10in. (346 x 25.5cm.), possibly 17th century Point de France, probably late 19th/early 20th century Point de France or Burano
Provenance
This lace formed part of a collection found in a leather suitcase purchased by the vendor for $10 in a warehouse sale in the early 1970s.
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