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Panel
Unknownca. 1600
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Three horizontal bands depicting scenes from the biblical story in which Judith severs Holoferne's head to save her people.
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Details
- Title: Panel
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: ca. 1600
- Physical Dimensions: w170 x d690 cm
- Type: Panel
- Rights: Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
- Medium: Medium: linen Technique: grid of withdrawn element work with needle lace, reticella style
- Provenance: This was previously in the collection of Madame Jules Porges. See research folder.
- Exhibitions: London, Victoria & Albert: An American Museum of Decorative Art and Design, Designs from the Cooper-Hewitt Collection, New York. 1973.Paris, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, 'Les grands collections de dentelles', 1906.New York: Cooper Union Museum: 'The Greenleaf Colection: Textile Arts from the 16 to early 19th century, 22 January to 9 May, 1964, p. 12, no. 87.Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, 'Treasures from the Cooper Union Museum, 13 July to 24 Sept. 1967.New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Shahzia Sikander Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection, March 6–September 7, 2009.
- Dimensions: H x W (a): 17.7 x 44 cm (6 15/16 x 17 5/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Mayer, Christa C. 'Two centuries of needle lace', Antiques, February 1965, p. 117, fig. 3.London, Victoria & Albert: An American Museum of Decorative Art and Design, Designs from the Cooper-Hewitt Collection, New York. Page 75, Plate 168.Paris, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, 'Les grands collections de dentelles', 1906. Plate IV, fig. 7CUM, 'The Greenleaf Colection: Textile Arts from the 16 to early 19th century', 22 January to 9 May, 1964, Page 12, no. 87.Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, 'Treasures from the Cooper Union Museum, 13 July to 24 Sept. 1967, Page 16, no. 33.
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