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Cloth with Border of Peacocks and Vegetation
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About this work
This large cloth shows a repeated pattern of confronted peacocks flanked by decorative motifs. More birds appear in the register above, and a pattern of four-legged animals is in the register below.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineCloth with Border of Peacocks and Vegetation, 1600s–1700s. Italy. Plain weave bleached linen (est.): needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in one direction); overall: 80.3 x 334.3 cm (31 5/8 x 131 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1916.1884
