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Border with Stags, Fountains, and Trees
1500s
- Medium
- Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in one direction) and applied fringe
- Classification
- Lace
- Dimensions
- Overall: 13.5 x 177.3 cm (5 5/16 x 69 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- Italy, Sicily
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Textiles
- Credit line
- Gift of J. H. Wade
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Prancing stags, represented with their heads turned backward, flank an ornate fountain. The fountain motif could allude to rejuvenation and immortality.
