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Collection Online as of December 22, 2025

Lace Fragment

1500s-1600s

Italy, Venice, 1500s-1600s

Needle lace (Punto in aria) insertion
Overall: 6.3 x 33.7 cm (2 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.)
Gift of J. H. Wade 1920.1236
Location: Not on view
  • Ida Schiff Collection.
  • Parasole, Elisabetta Catanea. Studio delle virtuose dame: doue si vedono bellissimi lauori di punto in aria, reticella, di maglia. In Roma [Rome]: Appresso A. Facchetti, 1597. p. 30
    Ricci, Elisa. Old Italian Lace. London, Philadelphia: William Heinemann ; J.B. Lippincott Company, 1913. vol. 2, no. 26
    Milliken, W. Mathewson. 1922. “Lace and Its Development: II. Venetian Point and Genoa Bobbin Lace.” Antiques, V. 2. (July) p. 19-24, fig 6, p. 21
  • Renaissance lace rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 2017-April 16, 2019).
  • {{cite web|title=Lace Fragment|url=false|author=|year=1500s-1600s|access-date=22 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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