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Lace Border with Battle Scene
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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 would have been made for the wedding night of a newlywed couple. The elaborate battle scene rendered in this lace is unusual and exceptional.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineLace Border with Battle Scene, 1700s. Russia. Linen; needle lace (cutwork and drawnwork), straight (continuous) bobbin lace, (tape lace) edging; overall: 61.1 x 192.5 cm (24 1/16 x 75 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade, 1921.596
