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    "localId": "129187",
    "label": "Silk fragment with roundels of ducks",
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    "id": "129187",
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    "title": "Silk fragment with roundels of ducks",
    "date": "600s",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 8.3 x 11.4 cm (3 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.)",
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    "tec": "samite: silk",
    "tombstone": "Silk fragment with roundels of ducks, 600s. Iran. Samite: silk; overall: 8.3 x 11.4 cm (3 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Textile Arts Club, 1951.88",
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    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy G. \"A Persian Textile of the Sasanian Period.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 38, no. 6 (1951): 145-47.",
            "page_number": "p.145-7",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25141722."
        },
        {
            "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. 673",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n124"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Woven Treasures of Persian Art; Persian Textiles from the 6th to the 19th Century</em>. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 1959.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: cat. no. 1 p. 19; Mentioned: cat. no. 1, p. 21"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Association française d'action artistique, and Roman Ghirshman. <em>Sept mille ans d'art en Iran: Petit Palais, Octobre 1961-Janvier 1962 ; [exposition</em>. [Paris]: [publisher not identified], 1962.",
            "page_number": "no. 858, p. 148"
        },
        {
            "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. 15",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n39"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Grabar, Oleg. <em>Sasanian Silver; Late Antique and Early Mediaeval Arts of Luxury from Iran</em>. [Ann Arbor, MI]: University of Michigan, 1967.",
            "page_number": "no. 63, p. 142"
        },
        {
            "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. 16",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n38"
        },
        {
            "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. 8",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n28"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Wardwell, Anne E. <em>Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club, 1934-1984 : [Exhibition] 21 November-30 December 1984, the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: The Museum, 1984.",
            "page_number": "p. 21"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 54, fig. 2.14; Mentioned: P. 55"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.88",
    "creditline": "Gift of The Textile Arts Club",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:39:59.800000",
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