Fragment with Animal and Vegetal Motifs (1500s): Art, History and Details
Fragment with Animal and Vegetal Motifs at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1500s, Unbleached and bleached linen (est.): needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in two directions). Explore the work's context, creator attribution and colle
Fragment with Animal and Vegetal Motifs (1500s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
The dark yellow of the unbleached linen ground allows for the pattern, worked in bleached linen in the burato technique, to prominently stand out. A thicker white thread outlines the design of stags in the top register, the vegetal motifs throughout, and the griffin or crowned eagle on the right.
Object facts
- Title: Fragment with Animal and Vegetal Motifs
- Date: 1500s
- Culture: Italy
- Type: Lace
- Technique: Unbleached and bleached linen (est.): needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in two directions)
- Dimensions: Overall: 29.2 x 32.2 cm (11 1/2 x 12 11/16 in.)
- Collection: T - Lace
- Department: Textiles
- Accession number: 1920.1256
A detail from the museum
The word lace derives from the Latin laqueus, meaning noose.
Collection credit
Gift of J. H. Wade
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