Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . Pratt Institute. of a star-like flower whose tendrils represent the two endsof long flowing arabesques. Above, the sprays blossomwith jasmine flowers while below they branch off into tulipforms. Other flowers carrying out the scroll are the tigerlily, the pink, a vigorously drawn branch of olive, the tu-berose, the strawberry blossom with leaves and fruit, andat either end a scroll with the rose as central point. Aspray of hyacinth and another of the lily of the valley formthe detail of each end of the pattern, while perched here andthere upon stem or curling leaf a
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . Pratt Institute. of a star-like flower whose tendrils represent the two endsof long flowing arabesques. Above, the sprays blossomwith jasmine flowers while below they branch off into tulipforms. Other flowers carrying out the scroll are the tigerlily, the pink, a vigorously drawn branch of olive, the tu-berose, the strawberry blossom with leaves and fruit, andat either end a scroll with the rose as central point. Aspray of hyacinth and another of the lily of the valley formthe detail of each end of the pattern, while perched here andthere upon stem or curling leaf are birds pecking at thefruit suspended above them. The background is an openrectangular mesh edged by a very narrow punto in aria bor-der, the color a soft rich cream. A piece of early Italianbobbin lace of punto in aria design shows a man in armourwith helmet and mantling displaying the crest which muchresembles the entwined serpent of the classic caduceus. Theflgure is supported by confronted pelicans, and salamanders 185. Bobbin lace (punto in aria design with suggestion of feudal motives). Man in arniourwith helmet and mantling displaying crest. Confronted pelicans, and salamandersfacing away, vase containing lilies of Florence and FOiegranate. Italian. 16th cen-tury. Lent by Mrs. W. H. Fox. facing away, a vase containing the lilies of Florenceand the pomegranate crowning the design. The motivesare repeated in the minor border. The salamander is thel^ersonal device of Francis I and the commingling of theseobjects force one irresistibly to think of the graft of theMedici family line upon the royal French stock in the six-teenth century. The lace authorities say that the sister ofFrancis 1 and both Catherine de Medici and Marie de Mediciimported into F^rance quantities of lace from Italy. It isevident that they had the lace workers employ as motivesthe devices of the two countries. Still another specimen ofvery rich early Italian bobbin showed the carnation is of th
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