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    "localId": "125342",
    "label": "Chasuble Fragment with Realistic Animals",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "125342",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Chasuble Fragment with Realistic Animals",
    "description": "Around 1400 an emerging interest in the bucolic world of nature encouraged a new trend among textile designers, as seen in the lions, hawks, dogs, and ducks on this luxury silk fragment. The continual influence of Chinese asymmetry, however, is evident in the prominent undulating palmette trees, enlarged from sinuous vines frequently seen in Italian silks and velvets from this period.",
    "date": "c. 1420",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.294",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60763085"
    ],
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        "Textile"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.294/1947.294_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 115.6 x 33.7 cm (45 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.); Mounted: 120.7 x 36.8 cm (47 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy"
    ],
    "accession": "1947.294"
}

{
    "tec": "Silk, gold thread; lampas weave",
    "tombstone": "Chasuble Fragment with Realistic Animals, c. 1420. Italy. Silk, gold thread; lampas weave; overall: 115.6 x 33.7 cm (45 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.); mounted: 120.7 x 36.8 cm (47 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1947.294",
    "collection": "T - Ecclesiastical",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy G. \"A Fifteenth-Century Italian Textile.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 35, no. 3 (1948): 46-44.",
            "page_number": "p. 46-48",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25141449."
        },
        {
            "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. 139, no. 124"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. Aspects of Late Mediaeval Art; The Mediaeval Conference, the Ohio State University. 1958.",
            "page_number": "no. 5 (under textiles)"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Bunt, Cyril G. E. Venetian Fabrics. Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1959.",
            "page_number": "figs. 5-6"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"Gothic Art 1360-1440.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 50, no. 7 (1963): 174-215.",
            "page_number": "no. 102, pp. 190, 215",
            "url": "Accessed July 18, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/25151960."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Müller, Kathrin. <em>Musterhaft naturgetreu: Tiere in Seiden, Zeichnungen und Tapisserien des 14. und 15.</em> <em>Jahrhunderts.</em> Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2020.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 166, farabb. 25"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.294",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:28:33.301000",
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    "sourceId": 125342,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Ecclesiastical",
    "med": "Silk, gold thread; lampas weave",
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    "image_url": null
}

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