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
- Object ID
- 102496
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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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- Credit line
- Gift of J. H. Wade
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