Fragment of a Band with Dragon, Castle, and Vegetation (1500s): Art, History and Details

Fragment of a Band with Dragon, Castle, and Vegetation (1500s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

The detailed and elegant craftsmanship of this piece of lace clearly delineates the dragon, with its extended tongue, pointy scales along its neck and tail, and clawed feet. To its right is an architectural element, most likely a castle.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment of a Band with Dragon, Castle, and Vegetation
• Date: 1500s
• Culture: Italy
• Type: Lace
• Technique: Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in one direction)
• Dimensions: Overall: 35.7 x 32.5 cm (14 1/16 x 12 13/16 in.)
• Collection: T - Lace
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1920.1143

A detail from the museum

This piece has a counterpart at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (20.186.359).

Collection credit

Gift of J. H. Wade

View the collection record

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