
Cleveland Museum of Art
Fragment with Animal and Vegetal Motifs
- Date
- 1500s
- Medium
- Unbleached and bleached linen (est.): needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in two directions)
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 100897
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The dark yellow of the unbleached linen ground allows for the pattern, worked in bleached linen in the burato technique, to prominently stand out. A thicker white thread outlines the design of stags in the top register, the vegetal motifs throughout, and the griffin or crowned eagle on the right. The word lace derives from the Latin laqueus , meaning noose .
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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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