Cloth with Border of Peacocks and Vegetation
Unknown Artist
17th-18th century
Medium
plain weave linen with needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in one direction); bleached linen (est.)
Dimensions
80.3 × 334.3 cm
Classification
Lace
Department
Textiles
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Dudley P. Allen Fund
Accession Number
1916.1884
About this artwork
This large cloth shows a repeated pattern of confronted peacocks flanked by decorative motifs. More birds appear in the register above, and a pattern of four-legged animals is in the register below.