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Source Description
The reversed and backward orientation of many of the squares in this band of lace suggests that this was not their original layout. They were most likely taken apart and later joined back together in a disoriented manner.
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Document identity
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114063
label
Band with Various Fantastic Creatures and Vegetal Patterns
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Source metadata
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114063
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object
title
Band with Various Fantastic Creatures and Vegetal Patterns
description
The reversed and backward orientation of many of the squares in this band of lace suggests that this was not their original layout. They were most likely taken apart and later joined back together in a disoriented manner.
date
1800s
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80006665
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Lace
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 24.7 x 316.5 cm (9 3/4 x 124 5/8 in.)
cul
Italy, 1800s
accession
1933.343
Source extras
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Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in two directions)
tombstone
Band with Various Fantastic Creatures and Vegetal Patterns, 1800s. Italy, 1800s. Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in two directions); overall: 24.7 x 316.5 cm (9 3/4 x 124 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Louise Tifft Brown, 1933.343
collection
T - Lace
didYouKnow
The square showing a man in midair above a bull-like creature is reminiscent of the Minoan "Bull Leaping" fresco at the Knossos palace complex.
citations
citation
Underhill, Gertrude. "Louise Tifft Brown Bequest of Lace."<em> The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 20, no. 10 (1933): 157-59.
page_number
157-159
citation
Simeon, Margaret. T<em>he History of Lace.</em> London: Stainer and Bell, 1979.
page_number
plate 4
creditline
Bequest of Louise Tifft Brown
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2026-05-29 05:59:52.151000
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114063
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Textiles
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T - Lace
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Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in two directions)
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