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Cloth with One Figure of a Woman Carrying a Cross Surrounded by Floral and Vegetal Patterns
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About this work
The only figure represented on this large lace cloth is located in the center. The figure is a woman, shown in profile, carrying a cross, standing on top of a creature or within a vessel shaped like a creature.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineCloth with One Figure of a Woman Carrying a Cross Surrounded by Floral and Vegetal Patterns, 1700s. Italy. Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in two directions), alternating reticella squares (open cutwork) and bobbin lace edging; overall: 196.7 x 130.6 cm (77 7/16 x 51 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Frances McIntosh Sherwin Collection, 1936.94
