Cleveland Museum of Art
Border Strips of a Skirt
- Date
- 1600s–1700s
- Medium
- Silk on linen tabby ground; embroidery
- Culture
- Greece, Crete
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 108507
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The primary motif is a large stylized flowering vase with fantastic flowers and foliage, two small figures sitting among the foliage, two birds at the top eating flowers and, in the center, a double-headed eagle. Two of these motifs appear on the large strip, separated by a much smaller flowering vase with two goat-like animals at the base. At the top and bottom is a border of arched compartments containing, alternately, a flower and a two-tailed mermaid or a double-headed eagle.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1926: (Alan J. B. Wace, London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1926–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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