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Lace Ecclesiastical Square

1600s

Italy, Venice

Needle lace (Venetian flat point)
Average: 15.9 x 15.9 cm (6 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Edward B. Greene, G. G. Wade and J. H. Wade Jr. for the Ellen Garretson Wade Memorial Collection 1923.1026
Location: Not on view

Description

This ecclesiastical square features the crucifixion with Mary and St. John. Above them is the sun and moon, a reference to earlier iconography.
  • Ricci, Elisa. Old Italian Lace. London, Philadelphia: William Heinemann ; J.B. Lippincott Company, 1913. Vol. 1 No. 311
    William Mathewson Milliken. "The Ellen Garretson Wade Memorial Lace Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 11, no. 1 (1924). p. 8-12 25136714
    Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 375
  • Lace: Italy, Flanders, France. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 3-July 9, 1987).
    Venice: Silk and Lace. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-August 11, 1985).
    The Ikle and Jacoby Collection of Laces and Embroideries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 25-June 3, 1962).
    The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
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