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{
    "localId": "111339",
    "label": "Fragment",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "111339",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Fragment",
    "description": "The Indian technique of patterning a textile by printing with carved woodblocks came to the Mamluk world as a result of trade with India. At Fustat, outside of Cairo, numerous fragments of Indian and Mamluk printed textiles have been found. Fish, repeated to form the entire design of this textile, were an indigenous Egyptian motif.",
    "date": "1200s–1300s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.845",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80003379"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.845/1929.845_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.845/1929.845_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.845/1929.845_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 16.5 x 17.8 cm (6 1/2 x 7 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Egypt, Mamluk sultanate (1250–1517)"
    ],
    "accession": "1929.845"
}

{
    "tec": "Block printing on plain weave cotton ground",
    "tombstone": "Fragment, 1200s–1300s. Egypt, Mamluk sultanate (1250–1517). Block printing on plain weave cotton ground; overall: 16.5 x 17.8 cm (6 1/2 x 7 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1929.845",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "didYouKnow": "The break in the bodies of two of the fish reveals that two blocks were used to print each fish.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Pfister, R. <em>Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan</em>. Paris: Les Éditions d'art et d'histoire, 1938.",
            "page_number": "p. 75, pl. XXIXc"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 270",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n290"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art., 1991.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 48",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n63/mode/2up?view=theater"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.845",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:53:33.435000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.845/1929.845_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 111339,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "Textiles",
    "med": "Block printing on plain weave cotton ground",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.845/1929.845_web.jpg",
    "mediaId": "e64884542b68e9cb"
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