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    "localId": "112965",
    "label": "Textile Fragment with the Annunciation",
    "core": "obj",
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}

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    "id": "112965",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Textile Fragment with the Annunciation",
    "description": "The motif shown here depicts the Virgin Mary and the angel Gabriel in a repeating sequence. Both figures kneel above a bed of flowers while a dove representing the Holy Ghost hovers above. The ground of this luxury silk, woven with highlights of gold thread, is now a faded blue. Its original purpose is not clear, but it may have originally been part of an altar frontal or possibly an ecclesiastical cope, or cape.",
    "date": "1370–1400",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.61",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60744547"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.61/1931.61_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.61/1931.61_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.61/1931.61_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 23.2 x 47.6 cm (9 1/8 x 18 3/4 in.); Mounted: 28.6 x 53.3 cm (11 1/4 x 21 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy"
    ],
    "accession": "1931.61"
}

{
    "tec": "Silk with gold thread; lampas weave",
    "tombstone": "Textile Fragment with the Annunciation, 1370–1400. Italy. Silk with gold thread; lampas weave; overall: 23.2 x 47.6 cm (9 1/8 x 18 3/4 in.); mounted: 28.6 x 53.3 cm (11 1/4 x 21 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1931.61",
    "collection": "T - Ecclesiastical",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire (Belgium), and Isabelle Errera. Catalogue d'étoffes anciennes et modernes décrites par Isabelle Errera. Bruxelles: Vromant, 1927."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Gertrude Underhill. \"Two Fifteenth Century Brocades.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 18, no. 4 (1931):",
            "page_number": "64-69.",
            "url": "Accessed June 28, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/25137377."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Underhill, Gertrude. \"Textiles from the H. A. Elsberg Collection.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 26, no. 9 (1939): 143-46.",
            "page_number": "p. 143-146",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25138043"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Los Angeles County Museum. 2000 Years of Silk Weaving: An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. 1944.",
            "page_number": "p. 15, catalog number 102"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Weibel, Adèle Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952.",
            "page_number": "p. 137, catalog number 206"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 164",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n41"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Detroit Institute of Arts, and Paul L. Grigaut. Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600; The Detroit Institute of Arts [Exhibition] November 18, 1958-January 4, 1959. 1958.",
            "page_number": "p. 79, catalog number 174"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 80",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n104"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 80",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n104"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Wardwell, Anne E. 1977. “The Stylistic Development of 14th- and 15th-Century Italian Silk Design.” <em>Aachener Kunstblätter / Hrsg. Im Auftr. Des Vorstandes Des Aachener Museumsvereins</em> 47.1976/77(1977), 177-226.",
            "page_number": "p. 189-191, fig. 21"
        },
        {
            "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. 66",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n86"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Martin Nagy, Rebecca. Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985.",
            "page_number": "p. 26, 58"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Indictor, Norman, Robert J. (Robert John) Koestler, Christopher Blair, and Anne E. Wardwell. “The Evaluation of Metal Wrappings from Medieval Textiles Using Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive x-Ray Spectrometry.” <em>Textile History</em> 19 (1). 1988.",
            "page_number": "p. 3-22"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.61",
    "creditline": "Dudley P. Allen Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-13 11:47:05.419000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.61/1931.61_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 112965,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Ecclesiastical",
    "med": "Silk with gold thread; lampas weave",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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