Panel
Unknown Artist
c. 1780–1840
Medium
Linen: plain weave; silk; embroidery
Dimensions
14.6 × 46 cm
Classification
Embroidery
Department
Textiles
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Kathleen Van Meter
Accession Number
1931.72
About this artwork
This Russian embroidered panel was likely used to embellish the end of a bathing towel. Textiles of this type are valuable for their fine embroidery of ancient folk motifs, ritual significance, exemplification of the role of textiles in their society, and in this case, connection to a prominent woman collector, Natalia de Shabelsky, without whom this textile and others like it might have been lost.