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
Rights
Public Domain
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.