The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 24, 2025

Lace Fragment

1560–99

Italy, Venice

Needle lace (Punto in aria) insertion and edging
Average: 10.5 x 48 cm (4 1/8 x 18 7/8 in.)
Gift of J. H. Wade 1920.1238
Location: Not on view

Description

This fragment, of extraordinary quality, is based on a Reticella design.
  • Ida Schiff Collection.
  • William Mathewson Milliken. "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. (July) p. 19-24, fig. 3, p. 20
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1920.1238