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    "localId": "98603",
    "label": "Velvet Fragment",
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    "id": "98603",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Velvet Fragment",
    "date": "1400–1450",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.310",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "wikidata": [
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 38.5 x 24.2 cm (15 3/16 x 9 1/2 in.)",
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        "Italy, Padua and Venice, 16th century"
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    "collection": "Textiles",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Los Angeles County Museum. 2000 Years of Silk Weaving: An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. 1944."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Underhill, Gertrude. \"Two Thousand Years of Silk Weaving.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>31, no. 3 (March 1944): 38-39.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 38",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141114"
        },
        {
            "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. 168",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n41"
        },
        {
            "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. 61",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n85"
        },
        {
            "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. 61",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n85"
        },
        {
            "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. 69",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n89"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Martin Nagy, Rebecca. Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985.",
            "page_number": "p. 48-9, 59"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 353, fig. 53",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.310",
    "creditline": "Dudley P. Allen Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:19:14.025000",
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    "sourceId": 98603,
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    "med": "velvet (cut, uncut, voided, brocaded); silk",
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}

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