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{
    "localId": "111408",
    "label": "Lampas with animals in squares",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

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    "id": "111408",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Lampas with animals in squares",
    "date": "late 1200s - 1300s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.905",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80003514"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.905/1929.905_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.905/1929.905_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 23.2 x 10.7 cm (9 1/8 x 4 3/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "probably Iran"
    ],
    "accession": "1929.905"
}

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    "tec": "lampas and taqueté: silk and metal thread",
    "tombstone": "Lampas with animals in squares, late 1200s - 1300s. Probably Iran. Lampas and taqueté: silk and metal thread; overall: 23.2 x 10.7 cm (9 1/8 x 4 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1929.905",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Wardwell, A. (1987). Flight of the Phoenix: Crosscurrents in Late Thirteenth- to Fourteenth-Century Silk Patterns and Motifs. The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 74(1), 2-35.",
            "page_number": "p. 2-35, fig. 9",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159970"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Indictor, Norman, Robert J. (Robert John) Koestler, Christopher Blair, and Anne E. Wardwell. “The Evaluation of Metal Wrappings from Medieval Textiles Using Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive x-Ray Spectrometry.” <em>Textile History</em> 19 (1). 1988.",
            "page_number": "p. 3-22"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 238, fig. 6.24; Mentioned: P. 237"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.905",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:53:50.681000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.905/1929.905_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 111408,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "lampas and taqueté: silk and metal thread",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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