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Border with Peacock Motif
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About this work
This valance, a decorative drapery made for attachment at the frame of the bed, was a typical object from the dowry of a bride in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Russia. The valance, which shows a magnificent peacock flanked by temples or shrines, would have been made for the wedding night of a newlywed couple.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineBorder with Peacock Motif, 1700s–1800s. Russia. Linen: needle lace (cutwork and drawnwork), straight (continuous) bobbin lace, tape lace edging; applied silk (est.) ribbon and embroidery; overall: 52.1 x 145.4 cm (20 1/2 x 57 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade, 1921.1141
