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Lace Fragment

1500s

Italy, Venice, 1500s

Linen: needle lace (Reticella) insertion
Overall: 6.3 x 30.5 cm (2 1/2 x 12 in.)
Gift of J. H. Wade 1920.1138
Location: Not on view
  • Ida Schiff Collection.
  • 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
    Ricci, Elisa. Old Italian Lace. London, Philadelphia: William Heinemann ; J.B. Lippincott Company, 1913. vol. 1, nos. 20, 48, 13B
    Milliken, William Mathewson. "Important Additions to the Lace Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 8, no. 2 (1921). p. 19-34 25136450
    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
  • Renaissance lace rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 2017-April 16, 2019).
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