Strip of bobbin lace with flower and leaf motifs above a border with volutes of flowers and elongated cartouches, Strip of natural-colored Brussels bobbin lace. The pattern consists of flower sprays, which alternate between the top and the bottom of the strip. They are large flowers or flower clusters that all differ from each other. Distinctive are rosette flowers, a bunch of plume-shaped flowers, a large lily and a bunch of flowers with five pointed leaves. Along the underside, the pattern consists of a succession of smaller flowers, in particular rosette flowers, leaves and elongated cartouches and volutes. The motifs are connected to each other by a fine mesh soil, a drizzle soil. The full work is largely made of linen with openwork edges and few cut-outs and partly in net stroke. Most motifs are provided with cloned relief contours. Various ornamental grounds have been used, including painted braided grounds, a snowflake ground and an ornamental ground with a diamond-shaped pattern. The upper side is finished with a separately cloned strap. The irregular and faintly scalloped bottom comes from the border pattern and is finished with picots., anonymous, Southern Netherlands, c. 1750 - c. 1760, linen (material), Brussels bobbin lace, l 74 cm × w 7 cm

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