Cleveland Museum of Art
Cloth with Border of Peacocks and Vegetation
- Date
- 1600s–1700s
- Medium
- plain weave bleached linen (est.): needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in one direction)
- Culture
- Italy, 1600s-1700s
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This large cloth shows a repeated pattern of confronted peacocks flanked by decorative motifs. More birds appear in the register above, and a pattern of four-legged animals is in the register below. Based on the ancient belief that the peacock’s flesh never decayed, they became a symbol of immortality and the Resurrection of Christ.
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