Cleveland Museum of Art

Border with Peacock Motif

Date

1700s-1800s

Medium

Linen: needle lace (cutwork and drawnwork), straight (continuous) bobbin lace, tape lace edging; applied silk (est.) ribbon and embroidery

Culture

Russia

Department

Textiles

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This valance, a decorative drapery made for attachment at the frame of the bed, was a typical object from the dowry of a bride in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Russia. The valance, which shows a magnificent peacock flanked by temples or shrines, would have been made for the wedding night of a newlywed couple. Handmade lace for marriage dowries was produced in large quantities in Russia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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