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Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Border with Battle Scene

Border with Battle Scene

18th century
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Handmade lace for marriage dowries was produced in large quantities in Russia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Description

This valance, a decorative drapery made for attachment at the frame of the bed, was a typical object from the dowry of a bride in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Russia. The valance would have been made for the wedding night of a newlywed couple. The elaborate battle scene rendered in this lace is unusual and exceptional.
  • Efimova, L. V., R. M. Belogorskai︠a︡, and Santina M. Levey. Russian embroidery and lace. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1987.
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1921.596