One more thing I could say. At that time period Genoa was making bobbin lace, similar in style to reticello. And some of those leaf shapes and triangles in the painting seem to have 3 raised ridges in them, not 2. For needlelace you would expect 2 ridges. But for bobbin lace one would expect 3 ridges. So I looked and looked. It might be possible to figure out a way of making something similar in bobbin lace. But it would be easier to make that design in pure needlelace or reticello embroidery (the central part of the lace). So I still think it needlelace, but I did consider the other possibility. Lorelei
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