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    "localId": "100739",
    "label": "Fragment with Wide Circular Pattern",
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    "id": "100739",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Fragment with Wide Circular Pattern",
    "description": "The <em>mezza mandolina </em>technique produces an irregular mesh netting, as opposed to the uniform knotted netting of filet/lacis needle lace. This piece gains the overall effect of the mesh netting through the lace maker’s use of large and small circular patterns.",
    "date": "1500s–1600s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.1125",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Lace"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.1125/1920.1125_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.1125/1920.1125_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.1125/1920.1125_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 11.4 x 17.5 cm (4 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy"
    ],
    "accession": "1920.1125"
}

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    "tec": "Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, mezza mandolina",
    "tombstone": "Fragment with Wide Circular Pattern, 1500s–1600s. Italy. Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, mezza mandolina; overall: 11.4 x 17.5 cm (4 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade, 1920.1125",
    "collection": "T - Lace",
    "didYouKnow": "<em>Mezza mandolina</em> was frequently used for lace collars, often depicted in portraits of women from the 1500s and 1600s.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Ricci, Elisa. Old Italian Lace. 1913.",
            "page_number": "Vol. 1, No. 56"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.1125",
    "creditline": "Gift of J. H. Wade",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:26:46.298000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.1125/1920.1125_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 100739,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Lace",
    "med": "Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, mezza mandolina",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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