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{
    "localId": "112879",
    "label": "Reliquary bag with lions",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "112879",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Reliquary bag with lions",
    "description": "This bag was originally inside of the portable altar commissioned by Countess Gertrude of Brunswick, one of the Guelph Treasure’s earliest and most sumptuous objects.",
    "date": "late 1100s-1300s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.462.c",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80005358"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.462.c/1931.462.c_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.462.c/1931.462.c_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Average: 8 x 36.9 cm (3 1/8 x 14 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Spain, probably Almeria"
    ],
    "accession": "1931.462.c"
}

{
    "tec": "cloth d’areste, weft-faced lozenge twill variant: silk and gold thread",
    "tombstone": "Reliquary bag with lions, late 1100s-1300s. Spain, probably Almeria. Cloth d’areste, weft-faced lozenge twill variant: silk and gold thread; average: 8 x 36.9 cm (3 1/8 x 14 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1931.462.c",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "1931.462j"
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "This silk bag originally held bits of mummified flesh or tissue which was labeled as being from Saint Bartholomew.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 95",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n31"
        },
        {
            "citation": "May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. <em>Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: no. 19, p. 24"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Bagnoli, Martina. <em>Treasures of heaven: saints, relics, and devotion in medieval Europe</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2010."
        },
        {
            "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. 185, fig. 5.15; Mentioned: P. 184"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.462.c",
    "creditline": "Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:56:51.975000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.462.c/1931.462.c_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 112879,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "cloth d’areste, weft-faced lozenge twill variant: silk and gold thread",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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