Cleveland Museum of Art
Fragment of a Bed Curtain
- Date
- 1700s
- Medium
- Silk on linen tabby ground, embroidery
- Culture
- Greece, Crete, 18th century
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 108505
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This fragment of a bed curtain is covered with flowering vase forms with fantastic flowers and leaves. Can you find the birds, animals, and snakes scattered among the foliage?
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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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