Border Strips of a Skirt (1600s–1700s): Art, History and Details

Border Strips of a Skirt (1600s–1700s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

The primary motif is a large stylized flowering vase with fantastic flowers and foliage, two small figures sitting among the foliage, two birds at the top eating flowers and, in the center, a double-headed eagle. Two of these motifs appear on the large strip, separated by a much smaller flowering vase with two goat-like animals at the base. At the top and bottom is a border of arched compartments containing, alternately, a flower and a two-tailed mermaid or a double-headed eagle.

Object facts

• Title: Border Strips of a Skirt
• Date: 1600s–1700s
• Culture: Greece, Crete
• Type: Embroidery
• Technique: Silk on linen tabby ground; embroidery
• Collection: Textiles
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1926.217

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

View the collection record

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