Fragment of a Band with Floral Motif (1700s or early 1800s): Art, History and Details

Fragment of a Band with Floral Motif (1700s or early 1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

Though it is a small fragment, this piece of lace is simple and honest in its decorative quality. The focus is on the abstract floral motif, which stands out with its thick darning against the unadorned diamond ground netting.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment of a Band with Floral Motif
• Date: 1700s or early 1800s
• Culture: Spain
• Type: Lace
• Technique: Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one direction)
• Dimensions: Overall: 20 x 23 cm (7 7/8 x 9 1/16 in.)
• Collection: T - Lace
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1919.753

A detail from the museum

Myrta Leonora Jones, the donor of this work, was a women’s rights activist in Cleveland in the early 20th century.

Collection credit

Gift of Myrta Leonora Jones

Further reading listed by the museum

• "Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 6, no. 10 (1919): 162.

View the collection record

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