The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
Cloth with One Figure of a Woman Carrying a Cross Surrounded by Floral and Vegetal Patterns
18th century
Overall: 196.7 x 130.6 cm (77 7/16 x 51 7/16 in.)
Location: not on view
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The large size and square shape suggest that this textile would likely have been used as a table cloth.Description
The only figure represented on this large lace cloth is located in the center. The figure is a woman, shown in profile, carrying a cross, standing on top of a creature or within a vessel shaped like a creature.- Underhill, Gertrude. "The Frances McIntosh Sherwin Collection of Lace." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 23, no. 4 (1936): 53-54. 53-54 www.jstor.org
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1936.94