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{
    "localId": "98598",
    "label": "Fragment from an Orphrey Band",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "98598",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Fragment from an Orphrey Band",
    "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art has a number of band fragments that may have been created in a workshop in Cologne, Germany, on the Rhine River. They may have been produced in series and could be adapted for various contexts. Such bands are found, for example, in very similar form on the nearby chasuble, or sleeveless outer vestment. The inscriptions Jesus and Mary on the bands also point to such a use.",
    "date": "1300s–1400s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.306",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79484963"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.306/1918.306_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.306/1918.306_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.306/1918.306_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 11.4 x 40.6 cm (4 1/2 x 16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Germany, Cologne"
    ],
    "accession": "1918.306"
}

{
    "tec": "Linen, silk, metal-wrapped thread: compound twill weave",
    "tombstone": "Fragment from an Orphrey Band, 1300s–1400s. Germany, Cologne. Linen, silk, metal-wrapped thread: compound twill weave; overall: 11.4 x 40.6 cm (4 1/2 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1918.306",
    "collection": "T - Ecclesiastical",
    "relatedWorks": [
        {
            "id": 99382,
            "description": "Fragment from an Orphrey Band, 1300s–1400s. Germany, Cologne. Linen, silk, metal-wrapped thread: compound twill weave; overall: 47.8 x 8.3 cm (18 13/16 x 3 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1918.921"
        },
        {
            "id": 99383,
            "description": "Fragment from an Orphrey Band, 1300s–1400s. Germany, Cologne. Linen, silk, metal-wrapped thread: compound twill weave; overall: 48.3 x 8.3 cm (19 x 3 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1918.922"
        },
        {
            "id": 99386,
            "description": "Fragment from an Orphrey Band, 1300s–1400s. Germany, Cologne. Linen, silk, metal-wrapped thread: compound twill weave; overall: 47 x 8 cm (18 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1918.925"
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Jaques, Renate. <em>Deutsche textilkunst in ihrer entwicklung bis zur gegenwart</em>. Berlin: Rembrandt-verlag, 1942.",
            "page_number": "p. 174-6; pl. 113-116"
        },
        {
            "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. 132, no. 187"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"Gothic Art 1360-1440.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 50, no. 7 (1963): 174-215.",
            "page_number": "p. 209. no. 55",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25151960."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Sporbeck, Gudrun. \"Liturgical vestments adorned with Cologne bands over the centuries.\" In <em>Iconography of Liturgical Textiles in the Middle Ages</em>. Eds. Evelin Wetter, Michael Bangert, Abegg-Stiftung, Michael Bangert, and Abegg-Stiftung. Riggisberger Berichte, 18. Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2010.",
            "page_number": "p. 183-194"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.306",
    "creditline": "Dudley P. Allen Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-12 15:34:42.741000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.306/1918.306_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 98598,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Ecclesiastical",
    "med": "Linen, silk, metal-wrapped thread: compound twill weave",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.306/1918.306_web.jpg",
    "mediaId": "cc9c48adca9f6c06"
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