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        "tombstone": "Venetian Lace Table Setting: Doily, 1930s. Italy, Venice, probably at the Burano Lace School, 20th century. Linen, needle lace; overall: 16.5 x 15.8 cm (6 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Crile Garretson, 2005.37.4.2",
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        "title": "Venetian Lace Table Setting: Doily",
        "creation_date": "1930s",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1930,
        "creation_date_latest": 1939,
        "artists_tags": [],
        "culture": [
            "Italy, Venice, probably at the Burano Lace School, 20th century"
        ],
        "technique": "linen, needle lace",
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        "department": "Textiles",
        "collection": "T - Lace",
        "type": "Lace",
        "measurements": "Overall: 16.5 x 15.8 cm (6 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.)",
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            "overall": {
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                "width": 0.158
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        "inscriptions": [
            {
                "inscription": "monogram: G. McBC (Grace McBride Crile)",
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                "description": "Grace McBride Crile",
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        "description": "When Dr. George Washington Crile, a founder of the Cleveland Clinic, and his wife, Grace McBride\r\nCrile, had elegant dinner parties in the 1930s, guests would surely have admired this luxurious\r\nhandmade lace table setting. Lively figural scenes surrounded by leafy scrolls form twelve place mats\r\nand the table runner. Matching napkins and doilies, used under finger bowls or on place plates, display\r\nthe elaborate monogram G McB C.\r\n\r\nLace is a decorative openwork fabric made by outlining holes to form a design. The more solid design areas, enriched with small ornamental holes, contrast with the more open background -- here\r\na mesh of octagons and squares. Made by hand around 1930 in Venice, the raised almost sculptural\r\noutlines of the motifs reflect the flamboyant style and technique of opulent 17th-century Venetian\r\nneedle lace.\r\n\r\nDeveloped in Europe around 1500, lace was a prestigious luxury fabric that privileged men and women showed off in portraits. The museum\u2019s collection of early lace is ranked the best in the world by lace scholars.\r\n\r\nLace is rarely made by hand anymore, a fact lamented in the medical field. Lace provides the ideal foundation for organs such as ears to regenerate; ears grow around the lace.\r\n\r\nElizabeth Crile\u2019s Wedding Reception, 1927\r\nDr. and Mrs. George W. Crile\u2019s Dining Room\r\n2620 Derbyshire Road, Cleveland Heights\r\nElizabeth Crile is seated beside her husband, Dr. Augustus\r\nCrisler, in her parents\u2019 dining room. Lace runners and\r\ndoilies add elegance to the opulent table. Her proud father\r\nstands second from the right. The house was at the top of\r\nCedar Hill where Cedar Hill Baptist Church stands today.",
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        "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Crile Garretson",
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "2005-02-28T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1930,
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        "date_text": "1930s",
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        "cover_accession_number": "2005.37",
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        "updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:09:23.928000"
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