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Border with Double-Headed Birds and Vases with Vines and Flowers
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Double-headed birds alternating with flowering vases appear on this filet/lacis lace. The pattern repeats horizontally, with organic spirals which burst into the upper and lower registers.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineBorder with Double-Headed Birds and Vases with Vines and Flowers, 1800s. Italy, Sardinia. Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one direction); overall: 23.8 x 244.2 cm (9 3/8 x 96 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Louise Tifft Brown, 1933.344
