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    "localId": "100735",
    "label": "Fragment of a Band with Birds and Trees",
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    "id": "100735",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Fragment of a Band with Birds and Trees",
    "description": "This lace, made in Sicily, shows a close relationship to a pattern in a model book published in Lyon, France, a commercial center of printing and luxury textile trade with strong ties to Italy. The designs were based on a grid, making it easier for the lace maker to translate the printed image into needlework.",
    "date": "1500s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.1121",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 5.4 x 23.5 cm (2 1/8 x 9 1/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy, Sicily, 1500s"
    ],
    "accession": "1920.1121"
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    "tec": "Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in one direction)",
    "tombstone": "Fragment of a Band with Birds and Trees, 1500s. Italy, Sicily, 1500s. Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in one direction); overall: 5.4 x 23.5 cm (2 1/8 x 9 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade, 1920.1121",
    "collection": "T - Lace",
    "didYouKnow": "Plant motifs, such as the blooming bushes found here, flanked by birds, were popular for their associations with well-being or blessing.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "La Fleur des patrons de lingerie a deux endroitz, a point croise, a point couche, et a point picque et fil dor, fil dargent et fil de soye, ou aultre en quelque ouuraige que ce soit en comprenant l'art de broderie et tissuterie. Lyon: En a maison de Pierre de Saincte Lucie, qz fut du feu prince, 1549.",
            "page_number": "p. 16"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.1121",
    "creditline": "Gift of J. H. Wade",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:26:45.042000",
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    "med": "Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in one direction)",
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