Band with Parade of Human Figures, Stags, and Other Fantastic Animals (1500s-1600s): Art, History and Details

Band with Parade of Human Figures, Stags, and Other Fantastic Animals (1500s-1600s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Animals viewed in profile, some with their legs raised, indicate movement, such as a parade or procession. However, the human figures are shown frontally. Linear elements protruding from their backs and hands held out and open suggest the figures may be angels modeling a gesture of prayer.

Object facts

• Title: Band with Parade of Human Figures, Stags, and Other Fantastic Animals
• Date: 1500s-1600s
• Culture: Italy, Sicily ?, 1500s-1600s
• Type: Lace
• Technique: Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in one direction)
• Dimensions: Overall: 16.2 x 210.1 cm (6 3/8 x 82 11/16 in.)
• Collection: T - Lace
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1920.1271

A detail from the museum

Myrta Leonora Jones, the donor of this lace, was a women’s rights activist in Cleveland in the early 1900s.

Collection credit

Gift of Myrta Leonora Jones

Further reading listed by the museum

• Ricci, Elisa. Old Italian Lace. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1913.
• Simeon, Margaret. The History of Lace. London: Stainer and Bell, 1979.

View the collection record

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