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    "localId": "103832",
    "label": "Scarf",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "103832",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Scarf",
    "description": "This woven linen textile is embroidered with a cascading pattern of dusty pink, mauve, and navy blue flowers. The embroiderer created this design with dyed silk thread, outlining the shapes in black and then filling in the designs with dense stitches. Textiles with this composition were made across the Mediterranean Sea in the 1800s, and were used as scarves or towels.",
    "date": "1800s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.920",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79509135"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Embroidery"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.920/1921.920_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.920/1921.920_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.920/1921.920_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 173.4 x 46 cm (68 1/4 x 18 1/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Africa, North Africa, Algeria, Algerian embroiderer"
    ],
    "accession": "1921.92"
}

{
    "tec": "Linen, silk, dye",
    "tombstone": "Scarf, 1800s. Africa, North Africa, Algeria, Algerian embroiderer. Linen, silk, dye; overall: 173.4 x 46 cm (68 1/4 x 18 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Charles William Wason, 1921.920",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "didYouKnow": "This example was displayed in one of the CMA’s earliest exhibitions, 1923’s <em>Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Oriental Embroideries</em> in 1923.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "\"Accessions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 8, no. 9 (1921): 138-41.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 139",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136519"
        },
        {
            "citation": "G. U. [Gertrude Underhill]. “An Exhibition of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Oriental Embroideries.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 10, no. 9 (1923).",
            "page_number": "157–58",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136692"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.920",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mrs. Charles William Wason",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:36:10.914000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.920/1921.920_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 103832,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "Linen, silk, dye",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.920/1921.920_web.jpg",
    "mediaId": "ae951f685083ad22"
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