id:			100866
accession number:	1920.1236
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.1236
updated:		2025-11-04 15:20:05.594000

Lace Fragment, 1500s-1600s. Italy, Venice, 1500s-1600s. Needle lace (Punto in aria) insertion; overall: 6.3 x 33.7 cm (2 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade, 1920.1236

title:				Lace Fragment
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creation date:			1500s-1600s
creation date earliest:		1500
creation date latest:		1699
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creditline:			Gift of J. H. Wade
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culture:	Italy, Venice, 1500s-1600s
technique:	Needle lace (Punto in aria) insertion
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Lace
type:		Lace
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measurements: Overall: 6.3 x 33.7 cm (2 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Renaissance lace rotation
	opening date:   2017-12-19T05:00:00
	<i>Renaissance lace rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 2017-April 16, 2019).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Ida Schiff Collection.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Parasole, Elisabetta Catanea. Studio delle virtuose dame: doue si vedono bellissimi lauori di punto in aria, reticella, di maglia. In Roma [Rome]: Appresso A. Facchetti, 1597.
	page number: 	p. 30
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	Ricci, Elisa. <em>Old Italian Lace</em>. London, Philadelphia: William Heinemann ; J.B. Lippincott Company, 1913.
	page number: 	vol. 2, no. 26
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	Milliken, W. Mathewson. 1922. “Lace and Its Development: II. Venetian Point and Genoa Bobbin Lace.” <em>Antiques, V. 2</em>. (July)
	page number: 	p. 19-24, fig 6, p. 21
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