A rare  bobbin lace sampler, one panel featuring a figure of a man, with good tassels to  each corner --26½  x  4 in. (67 x 10cm.), Italian, second half of the 16th century
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A rare bobbin lace sampler, one panel featuring a figure of a man, with good tassels to each corner --26½ x 4 in. (67 x 10cm.), Italian, second half of the 16th century

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A rare bobbin lace sampler, one panel featuring a figure of a man, with good tassels to each corner --26½ x 4 in. (67 x 10cm.), Italian, second half of the 16th century
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Provenance
For similar examples see Le Pompe, Sessa Brothers, Venise 1557, Gattungen Dantelschnur 'New Modelbuch, Zurich 1561 and S Levey, Lace, A History figure 88b
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