Cloth with Border of Female Figures and Peacocks (1700s–1800s): Art, History and Details

Cloth with Border of Female Figures and Peacocks (1700s–1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

This cloth may have functioned as a towel. On one end, there are two panels of lace work surrounded by pink silk ribbon. Within each panel are two women flanking a stylized peacock. A smaller bird flies near the head of the woman on the right side of each panel.

Object facts

• Title: Cloth with Border of Female Figures and Peacocks
• Date: 1700s–1800s
• Culture: Russia
• Type: Lace
• Technique: Linen: needle lace (cutwork and drawnwork), straight (continuous) bobbin lace, (tape lace) edging; applied silk (est.) ribbon
• Dimensions: Overall: 89.8 x 95.2 cm (35 3/8 x 37 1/2 in.)
• Collection: T - Lace
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1921.1134

A detail from the museum

Handmade lace for marriage dowries was produced at large quantities in Russia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Collection credit

Gift of J. H. Wade

View the collection record

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