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Border with Crowned and Double-Headed Birds
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About this work
This long border may have functioned as a valance, a decorative drapery made for attachment at the frame of the bed. Crowned double-headed eagles confront peacocks, while smaller birds fly above them.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineBorder with Crowned and Double-Headed Birds, 1700s–1800s. Russia. Needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one direction) and bobbin lace (tape lace) edging; bleached linen (est.); overall: 35.6 x 154.3 cm (14 x 60 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Page, 1921.85
