The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

Lace Cuff

1500s-1600s

Italy, Venice, 1500s-1600s

Linen: needle lace (Punto in Aria)
Overall: 17.5 x 51.8 cm (6 7/8 x 20 3/8 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Edward B. Greene, G. G. Wade and J. H. Wade Jr. for the Ellen Garretson Wade Memorial Collection 1923.970
Location: Not on view
  • 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
    Ricci, Elisa. Old Italian Lace. London, Philadelphia: William Heinemann ; J.B. Lippincott Company, 1913. vol. 1, no. 214
  • Renaissance lace rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 2017-April 16, 2019).
    The Ikle and Jacoby Collection of Laces and Embroideries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 25-June 3, 1962).
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