Panel for a Headdress
Unknown Artist
1700–1900
Medium
Linen: plain weave; silk: embroidery
Dimensions
10.5 × 16.2 cm
Classification
Embroidery
Department
Textiles
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Charla Coatoam
Accession Number
1931.75
About this artwork
This Russian embroidered panel was used to embellish a headdress. Textiles of this type are valuable for their embroidery depicting ancient folk motifs, ritual significance, exemplification of the role of textiles in Russian society, and connection to a prominent woman collector, Natalia de Shabelsky, without whom this textile and others like it might have been lost.