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{
    "localId": "113117",
    "label": "Fragment with musicians",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "113117",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Fragment with musicians",
    "description": "The repeating pattern features female musicians playing tambourines. They wear long blue and blue-green robes in alternate rows. A lamp hangs between them, suggesting an evening setting. Traces of their black hair peek out from under red headdresses. <br><br>This textile, along with several other fragments, was found within the pages of a Christian manuscript in the Cathedral of Vich, near Barcelona in northeastern Spain.",
    "date": "1200s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1932.137",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60756295"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.137/1932.137_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 16.8 x 14 cm (6 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.); Mounted: 27.3 x 24.1 cm (10 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Spain, probably Almeria"
    ],
    "accession": "1932.137"
}

{
    "tec": "Silk and gold thread: lampas weave with areas of double cloth",
    "tombstone": "Fragment with musicians, 1200s. Spain, probably Almeria. Silk and gold thread: lampas weave with areas of double cloth; overall: 16.8 x 14 cm (6 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.); mounted: 27.3 x 24.1 cm (10 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1932.137",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Los Angeles County Museum. 2000 Years of Silk Weaving: An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. 1944.",
            "page_number": "pl. 34, catalog number 123"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), and Maurice Sven Dimand. A Handbook of Muhammadan Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1944.",
            "page_number": "fig. 183"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Weibel, Adèle Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952.",
            "page_number": "catalog number 75"
        },
        {
            "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 and Reproduced: cat. no. 125",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n36"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 218",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n242"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 218",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n242"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 275",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n295"
        },
        {
            "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. 185, fig. 5.16; Mentioned: P. 184-185"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1932.137",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:57:35.459000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.137/1932.137_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 113117,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "Silk and gold thread: lampas weave with areas of double cloth",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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