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    "localId": "124969",
    "label": "Silk Fragment",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

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    "id": "124969",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Silk Fragment",
    "date": "1300s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.417",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79903189"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.417/1946.417_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 78.2 x 39 cm (30 13/16 x 15 3/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Spain, Granada, Hispano-Islamic, 14th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1946.417"
}

{
    "tec": "Silk: lampas weave",
    "tombstone": "Silk Fragment, 1300s. Spain, Granada, Hispano-Islamic, 14th century. Silk: lampas weave; overall: 78.2 x 39 cm (30 13/16 x 15 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1946.417",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "third field at bottom consists of a composite band, knotted Kufic (\"enduring glory [surpassing ?] support\") framed to either side by bands with Naskhi inscriptions in cartouches, knotwork and crenelations (Naskhi inscription too worn to read)."
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "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. 132",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n36"
        },
        {
            "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. 220",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n244"
        },
        {
            "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. 220",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n244"
        },
        {
            "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. 277",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n297"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Wardwell, Anne E. \"A Fifteenth-Century Silk Curtain from Muslim Spain.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 70, no. 2 (1983)",
            "page_number": "p. 58-72",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25159802"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.417",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:27:10.222000",
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    "sourceId": 124969,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "Textiles",
    "med": "Silk: lampas weave",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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