Lace band

The scrolling foliage pattern covers the whole surface stylised acanthus leaves, pomegranates and flowers spring from the tendrils. The motifs are connected with rosettes enframed by tiny picots - hence this lace type was named point de rose or Rosellino. The bottom border is finished with a row of semicircular picots. The Burano Lace School was famous in the second half of the 19th century, for the faithful copies of l6th-18th century needle and bobbin laces. The piece described above was modelled on a seventeenth century Venetian relief needle lace, which used to belong to N.D. Contessa Ida Zeno. From 1896 on it was in the school's pattern book as a seventeenth century model (see: La Scuola del merletti di Burano. Burano 1981, p. 40, pictures at the right bottom).

Copies of the same model were made up till the early twentieth century - the exhibited piece is one of these.