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Alb
The collection record classifies this work as garment. It is dated Embroidered Linen: 1600s; Lace Flounce: 1700s. Recorded culture or place: Spain and Flanders.
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- Museum title
- Alb
- Date
- Embroidered Linen: 1600s; Lace Flounce: 1700s
- Culture / origin
- Spain and Flanders
- Materials and technique
- Plain weave linen embroidered in gold and silver; linen bobbin lace (Point d’Angleterre a Reseau)
- Dimensions
- Average: 342.9 x 61 cm (135 x 24 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1920.1260
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
This beautiful vestment, called an alb, was worn under other liturgical garments by the clergy who served at the altar. Embroidered with gilt-metal thread flora on a linen ground, it is trimmed with a flounce and cuffs of lace, the most fashionable and expensive material at the time. Its purple silk lining indicates that it belonged to an archbishop. The exquisitely worked bobbin lace consists of two large composite floral designs flanked by popular curved forms on an elaborate bar ground that repeats ten times around the flounce.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of J. H. Wade · CC0
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