This blackwork embroidery pattern is my interpretation of the pattern on the cuffs in this Portrait of an Unknown Lady, circa 1500 to 1524 (attributed to . This lady has sometimes been identified as Madeleine de la
Tour d’Auverge (1498-1519), Countess of Boulogne, Lady of St Saturnin,
by marriage Duchess of Urbino. Wife of Lorenzo II de' Medici and mother
of Catherine de Médici, Queen of France.

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