The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of August 8, 2022

Fragment of a Band with Vines and Leaves

1600s

Italy, 17th century

Needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in two directions); bleached linen (est.)

Overall: 12.7 x 64.8 cm (5 x 25 1/2 in.)

The Frances McIntosh Sherwin Collection 1936.223

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

Books of patterns for lace making and other needlework were aimed at well-to-do women and girls to encourage domestic virtue.

Description

A scrolling vine with budding vegetation or a tendril is a recurring pattern in needle lace. The frequent use of the motif, adapted in lace from different centuries and regions, suggests that it was found in a pattern book.

Citations
Underhill, Gertrude. "The Frances McIntosh Sherwin Collection of Lace." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 23, no. 4 (1936): 53-54. 53-54 www.jstor.org
Exhibition history

Lace: Italy, Flanders, France. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-July 9, 1987).

Renaissance lace rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1, 2012-December 9, 2013).

Wealth and Beauty: Pier Francesco Foschi and Painting in Renaissance Florence. Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA (organizer) (January 29-April 24, 2022) https://georgiamuseum.org/exhibit/wealth-and-beauty-pier-francesco-fosch....

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1936.223