The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 23, 2025
Band with Parade of Human Figures, Stags, and Other Fantastic Animals
1500s-1600s
Overall: 16.2 x 210.1 cm (6 3/8 x 82 11/16 in.)
Gift of Myrta Leonora Jones 1920.1271
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
Myrta Leonora Jones, the donor of this lace, was a women’s rights activist in Cleveland in the early 1900s.Description
Animals viewed in profile, some with their legs raised, indicate movement, such as a parade or procession. However, the human figures are shown frontally. Linear elements protruding from their backs and hands held out and open suggest the figures may be angels modeling a gesture of prayer.- Gift of Myrta Leonora Jones (Mrs. Henry White Cannon)
- Ricci, Elisa. Old Italian Lace. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1913. vol. 1 nos. 73-74Simeon, Margaret. The History of Lace. London: Stainer and Bell, 1979. plate 4
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