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Collection Online as of December 26, 2025

Lace Edging

1600s

Italy, 1600s

Linen: needle lace (reticella)
Overall: 59 x 264.4 cm (23 1/4 x 104 1/8 in.)
Bequest of Louise Tifft Brown 1933.301
Location: Not on view

Description

In this piece of lace edging, squares with a geometric design alternate with a motif of a bee, the symbol of the Barberini family.
  • Underhill, Gertrude. "Louise Tifft Brown Bequest of Lace." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 20, no. 10 (1933). p. 157-59 25137585
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