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Panel
c. 1780–1840
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This Russian embroidered panel was likely used to embellish the end of a bathing towel. Textiles of this type are valuable for their fine embroidery of ancient folk motifs, ritual significance, exemplification of the role of textiles in their society, and in this case, connection to a prominent woman collector, Natalia de Shabelsky, without whom this textile and others like it might have been lost.
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- Title: Panel
- Date Created: c. 1780–1840
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 14.6 x 46 cm (5 3/4 x 18 1/8 in.)
- Provenance: Collection of Natalia Leonidovna Shabelsky, Moscow, Russia (1841-1904/5), by inheritance to her daughters, Princess Alexandre Sidamon-Eristoff and Mlle. N. de Chabelskoy, sold through B.M. Pushkin, (Count B. M. Pushkin, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, deaccessioned and sold to Kathleen van Meter, Kathleen van Meter, Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Embroidery
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.72
- Medium: Linen: plain weave; silk; embroidery
- Fun Fact: Embroidering the ends of everyday towels was a common folk tradition in many cultures because it displayed the skill of the mother or daughter who stitched them.
- Department: Textiles
- Culture: Russia, Tambov province
- Credit Line: Gift of Kathleen Van Meter
- Collection: Textiles
- Accession Number: 1931.72
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