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    "localId": "100257",
    "label": "Fragment of a Band with Floral Motif",
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    "id": "100257",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Fragment of a Band with Floral Motif",
    "description": "Though it is a small fragment, this piece of lace is simple and honest in its decorative quality. The focus is on the abstract floral motif, which stands out with its thick darning against the unadorned diamond ground netting.",
    "date": "1700s or early 1800s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1919.753",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79491295"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Lace"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1919.753/1919.753_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1919.753/1919.753_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1919.753/1919.753_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 20 x 23 cm (7 7/8 x 9 1/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Spain"
    ],
    "accession": "1919.753"
}

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    "tec": "Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one direction)",
    "tombstone": "Fragment of a Band with Floral Motif, 1700s or early 1800s. Spain. Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one direction); overall: 20 x 23 cm (7 7/8 x 9 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Myrta Leonora Jones, 1919.753",
    "collection": "T - Lace",
    "didYouKnow": "Myrta Leonora Jones, the donor of this work, was a women’s rights activist in Cleveland in the early 20th century.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "\"Accessions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 6, no. 10 (1919): 162.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 162",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136331"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1919.753",
    "creditline": "Gift of Myrta Leonora Jones",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:25:40.242000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1919.753/1919.753_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 100257,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Lace",
    "med": "Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one direction)",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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