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Collection Online as of March 25, 2023

Band of Needlepoint (Reticella) Lace Insertion

16th century

Italy, Venice, 16th century

Lace, needlepoint: linen

Overall: 6.3 x 30.5 cm (2 1/2 x 12 in.)

Gift of J. H. Wade 1920.1138

Location

not on view

Provenance
Ida Schiff Collection.
Citations
La Fleur des patrons de lingerie a deux endroitz, a point croise, a point couche, et a point picque et fil dor, fil dargent et fil de soye, ou aultre en quelque ouuraige que ce soit en comprenant l'art de broderie et tissuterie. Lyon: En a maison de Pierre de Saincte Lucie, qz fut du feu prince, 1549. p. 16
William Mathewson Milliken. "Important Additions to the Lace Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 8, no. 2 (1921). p. 19-34 www.jstor.org
Milliken, W. Mathewson. 1922. “Lace and Its Development: II. Venetian Point and Genoa Bobbin Lace.” Antiques, V. 2. p. 19-24, fig. 2, p. 20
Exhibition history

Renaissance lace rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 2017-April 16, 2019).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1920.1138