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    "localId": "150992",
    "label": "Fragment of a Caftan",
    "core": "obj",
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}

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    "id": "150992",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Fragment of a Caftan",
    "description": "This fragment from a caftan features large-scale flattened octagons with pearled borders that contain a royal hunting scene: a king mounted on a running horse draws his bow at a rampant lion. Two dogs with their tongues out also run towards the lion. The star-shaped interspaces are filled with four radiating palmettes.",
    "date": "before 1982",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.43.c",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79934084"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.43.c/1982.43.c_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.43.c/1982.43.c_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.43.c/1982.43.c_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 49.5 x 47.4 cm (19 1/2 x 18 11/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Iraq or Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)"
    ],
    "accession": "1982.43.c"
}

{
    "tec": "Silk: lampas weave",
    "tombstone": "Fragment of a Caftan, before 1982. Iraq or Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055). Silk: lampas weave; overall: 49.5 x 47.4 cm (19 1/2 x 18 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1982.43.c",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1982.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 70, no. 1, 1983, pp. 3–55.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 63, p. 52",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159799"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.43.c",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:47:46.481000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.43.c/1982.43.c_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 150992,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "Silk: lampas weave",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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