The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of September 27, 2023

Fragment of a Skirt Border

1600s–1700s

Greece, Crete

Embroidery: silk on linen tabby ground

Overall: 90.2 x 61.6 cm (35 1/2 x 24 1/4 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1926.222

Location

not on view

Provenance
?–1926
(Alan J. B. Wace, London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1926–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history

Greek Island Embroideries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 30-June 7, 1966).

Greek Island Embroideries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 19, 1984-February 3, 1985).

Greek Island Embroideries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 21, 1995-March 24, 1996).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1926.222