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    "localId": "127928",
    "label": "Fragment of an Embroidery",
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    "id": "127928",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Fragment of an Embroidery",
    "date": "1100s",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 7 x 23.5 cm (2 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Iran or Iraq, Seljuk period, 12th century A.D."
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    "tec": "embroidery in silk and gold filé on mulham tabby ground",
    "tombstone": "Fragment of an Embroidery, 1100s. Iran or Iraq, Seljuk period, 12th century A.D.. Embroidery in silk and gold filé on mulham tabby ground; overall: 7 x 23.5 cm (2 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1950.562",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy G. “Two Islamic Embroideries in Gold on ‘Mulham.’” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 40, no. 8 (1953).",
            "page_number": "p. 189–191",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141905."
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