Ribbon: "Allegories of Harvest"

Cleveland Museum of Art

The ribbon titled "Allegories of Harvest" by an unknown artist features a long, black fabric strip with frayed edges. The strip has a row of small, evenly spaced white dots along the top and bottom edges. Two identical embroidered scenes are positioned at each end of the strip. Each scene depicts two women and a man; one woman wears a purple dress and sits on the right side, and the other woman wears a pink dress and a hat, sitting on the left side, with the man positioned between them on a stone pedestal. The man and women are surrounded by plants with feathery plumes. The background of the ribbon is plain black fabric. The ribbon is set against a white fabric background.