The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 19, 2025
Fragment of a Band with Branching Vegetation
1600s
Overall: 17.6 x 23 cm (6 15/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
Gift of Myrta Leonora Jones 1919.776
Location: Not on view
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Myrta Leonora Jones, the donor of this work, was a women’s rights activist in Cleveland in the early 20th century.Description
Budding vegetation or a tendril motif 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.- Gift of Myrta Leonora Jones (Mrs. Henry White Cannon)
- "Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 6, no. 10 (1919): 162. Mentioned: p. 162 www.jstor.org
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