The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 23, 2023

Needlepoint (Punto in aria) Lace Insertion

16th-17th century

Italy, Venice, 16th-17th century

Lace, needlepoint

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

Provenance
Ida Schiff Collection.
Citations
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
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
Exhibition history

Renaissance lace rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 2017-April 16, 2019).

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