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Band with Scroll Pattern
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About this work
A scrolling vine with budding vegetation or a tendril is a recurring pattern in needle lace. The frequent use of the motif, adapted in lace from different centuries and regions, suggests that it was found in a pattern book. Here, the pattern is excessively ornate with additional swirling motifs and flourishing vases.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineBand with Scroll Pattern, 1500s. Italy, Sicily. Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in one direction); overall: 14.7 x 388.3 cm (5 13/16 x 152 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade, 1921.1139
