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{
    "localId": "150895",
    "label": "Roundels with Hunters",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

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    "id": "150895",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Roundels with Hunters",
    "description": "This textile consists of two fragments mounted together. They are woven with floral roundels that enclose horsemen hunting lions. The theme of riders hunting with lances, the floral frames of the roundels, and the costumes of the hunters were all inspired by silks from the Byzantine world. The stiff, abstracted style, however, is characteristic of Sogdian silks, woven in Sogdiana in Central Asia and often traded to distant markets. These fragments were preserved in a grave in Egypt where they were found sewn as ornaments onto a tunic.",
    "date": "800s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.284",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79933861"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.284/1982.284_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.284/1982.284_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 26 x 29 cm (10 1/4 x 11 7/16 in.); Mounted: 46.4 x 74.3 cm (18 1/4 x 29 1/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Eastern Iran or Central Asia"
    ],
    "accession": "1982.284"
}

{
    "tec": "Silk: samite weave",
    "tombstone": "Roundels with Hunters, 800s. Eastern Iran or Central Asia. Silk: samite weave; overall: 26 x 29 cm (10 1/4 x 11 7/16 in.); mounted: 46.4 x 74.3 cm (18 1/4 x 29 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1982.284",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "relatedWorks": [
        {
            "id": 135579,
            "description": "Roundels with Hunters, 800s. Eastern Iran or Central Asia. Silk: samite weave; overall: 26.5 x 25.5 cm (10 7/16 x 10 1/16 in.); mounted: 46.4 x 74.3 cm (18 1/4 x 29 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Textile Art Alliance, 1959.124"
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "This textile consists of two fragments mounted together (<a href=\"https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.284\">CMA 1982.284</a> and <a href=\"https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.124\">CMA 1959.124</a>).",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy G. “Medieval Persian Silks in Fact and Fancy: A Refutation of the Riggisberg Report.” <em>Bulletin Du Cieta, Centre International D'étude Des Textiles Anciens</em> 1974, no. 39-40",
            "page_number": "Reproduced and mentioned: p. 131, fig. 53"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy G. \"Zandanījī Revisited.\" In Müller-Christensen, Sigrid, Mechthild Flury-Lemberg, and Karen Stolleis. <em>Documenta textilia: Festschrift für Sigrid Müller-Christensen</em>. München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1981.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced and mentioned: p. 122, fig. 4, cat. 98"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Wardwell, Anne E. <em>Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club, 1934-1984. </em>Cleveland: The Museum, 1984.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p.24, cat. 16"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Neils, Jenifer. \"The Twain Shall Meet.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 72, no. 6 (1985): 326-59.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 359, cat. 90",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25159914"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Watt, James C. Y., Anne E. Wardwell, and Morris Rossabi. <em>When silk was gold: Central Asian and Chinese textiles</em>. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art in cooperation with the Cleveland Museum of Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1997.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced and mentioned: p. 31, cat. 2",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/WhenSilkWasGoldCentralAsianChineseTextile/page/n41/mode/2up"
        },
        {
            "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. 63, fig. 2.26; Mentioned: P. 61"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.284",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:47:24.247000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.284/1982.284_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 150895,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "Textiles",
    "med": "Silk: samite weave",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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