The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a huge lace coverlet composed of handmade droschel strips and applied Brussels Bobbin lace dating from the Napoleonic era which depicts Diana and her shepherd lover Endymion (plate 76, Marian Powys, Lace and Lacemaking). In the Brussels Musees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire there is a cushion cover with Mars, Venus, and Cupid (or Return of the Warrior) Risselin-Steenebrugen, M., Trois Siecles de Dentelles aux Musees Royaux d' Art et d'Histoire. Brussels, 1980, p. 488, fig. 328. Also in that museum there is Tableau en dentelle with Apollo and the Metamorphosis of Daphne, illustrated in Risselin-Steenebrugen, p. 487, fig 327. This is also shown in figure 369 and 369A in Santina Levey's Lace: A History. In the Buffalo Museum of Science in New York there appears to be another of the series which shows a woman with a floating veil forming a circle overhead and a reclining man. It is rumored that there is another of this series in Belgrade, the donation of "the late Michael I. Pupin of Columbia University" according to an article appearing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, new series, 1944-45, pp, 204-208. A researcher is trying to locate any other examples of this series that she believes may all be Loves of the Gods. Has anyone seen anything anywhere that is close in style and fabrication and that might be part of the series? Devon
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