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Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Cloth with Border of Crowned Double-Headed Eagles with Various Emblems, Birds, and Other Animals

Cloth with Border of Crowned Double-Headed Eagles with Various Emblems, Birds, and Other Animals

19th century
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

This cloth was given to the museum by Louise Tifft Brown, a native Clevelander who became an expert in lace while living in Venice for 35 years.

Description

A range of techniques were used to create textural variation in this lace cloth: buratto, bobbin, and crochet. Figural motifs appear within the inserted buratto bands. Different birds, with crosses visible on their chests, crowned double-headed eagles, and feline figures facing a vessel may allude to the heraldic symbols of a particular family.
  • Underhill, Gertrude. "Louise Tifft Brown Bequest of Lace." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 20, no. 10 (1933): 157-59. 157-159 www.jstor.org
    Ricci, Elisa. Old Italian Lace. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1913. vol. 1 no. 23, 25
    Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and Milton Sonday. Lace: In the Collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design. 1982. fig. 9
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1933.315