Cloth with Border of Peacocks and Vegetation
1600–1799
- Medium
- plain weave bleached linen (est.): needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in one direction)
- Dimensions
- Overall: 80.3 x 334.3 cm (31 5/8 x 131 5/8 in.)
- Genre
- Lace
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Italy, 1600s-1700s
About
This large cloth shows a repeated pattern of confronted peacocks flanked by decorative motifs. More birds appear in the register above, and a pattern of four-legged animals is in the register below.