Border with Double-Headed Birds and Vases with Vines and Flowers (1800s): Art, History and Details

Border with Double-Headed Birds and Vases with Vines and Flowers (1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

Double-headed birds alternating with flowering vases appear on this filet/lacis lace. The pattern repeats horizontally, with organic spirals which burst into the upper and lower registers.

Object facts

• Title: Border with Double-Headed Birds and Vases with Vines and Flowers
• Date: 1800s
• Culture: Italy, Sardinia
• Type: Lace
• Technique: Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one direction)
• Dimensions: Overall: 23.8 x 244.2 cm (9 3/8 x 96 1/8 in.)
• Collection: T - Lace
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1933.344

A detail from the museum

This lace was given to the museum by Louise Tifft Brown, a native Clevelander who became an expert in lace while living in Venice for 35 years.

Collection credit

Bequest of Louise Tifft Brown

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