Fragment of a Band with Three Crosses of the Crucifixion (1700s): Art, History and Details

Fragment of a Band with Three Crosses of the Crucifixion (1700s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

The three crosses on a hill depicted in this piece of lace reference Golgotha or Calvary, the hill upon which Jesus was crucified. The ladder resting against the central cross suggests the Deposition of Christ. The scene is ensconced within a decorative scallop, imitative of lace and tassels, perhaps indicating that the larger piece from which this fragment was cut included a series of scenes from the Passion of Christ.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment of a Band with Three Crosses of the Crucifixion
• Date: 1700s
• Culture: Spain
• Type: Lace
• Technique: Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one direction) and burato (twined ground and darned in two directions)
• Dimensions: Overall: 29.2 x 26 cm (11 1/2 x 10 1/4 in.)
• Collection: T - Lace
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1919.746

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.

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