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Source Description
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.
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102496
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Border with Peacock Motif
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102496
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object
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Border with Peacock Motif
description
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.
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1700s–1800s
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en
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Q79501839
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Lace
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Overall: 52.1 x 145.4 cm (20 1/2 x 57 1/4 in.)
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Russia
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1921.1141
Source extras
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Linen: needle lace (cutwork and drawnwork), straight (continuous) bobbin lace, tape lace edging; applied silk (est.) ribbon and embroidery
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Border with Peacock Motif, 1700s–1800s. Russia. Linen: needle lace (cutwork and drawnwork), straight (continuous) bobbin lace, tape lace edging; applied silk (est.) ribbon and embroidery; overall: 52.1 x 145.4 cm (20 1/2 x 57 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade, 1921.1141
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T - Lace
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Handmade lace for marriage dowries was produced in large quantities in Russia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Gift of J. H. Wade
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2026-05-29 05:31:59.947000
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102496
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Textiles
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T - Lace
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Linen: needle lace (cutwork and drawnwork), straight (continuous) bobbin lace, tape lace edging; applied silk (est.) ribbon and embroidery
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