
Cleveland Museum of Art
Fragment of a Band with Birds and Trees
- Date
- 1500s
- Medium
- Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in one direction)
- Culture
- Italy, Sicily, 1500s
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 100735
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This lace, made in Sicily, shows a close relationship to a pattern in a model book published in Lyon, France, a commercial center of printing and luxury textile trade with strong ties to Italy. The designs were based on a grid, making it easier for the lace maker to translate the printed image into needlework. Plant motifs, such as the blooming bushes found here, flanked by birds, were popular for their associations with well-being or blessing.
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- Credit line
- Gift of J. H. Wade
- Provenance
- Ida Schiff Collection | J. H. Wade | 1920-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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