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{
    "localId": "114019",
    "label": "Lace Edging",
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    "id": "114019",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Lace Edging",
    "description": "The IHS symbol can be seen in this piece of lace. It is a monogram representing the first three letters of Jesus’s name in Greek:<em> iota</em>, <em>eta</em>, and <em>sigma</em>. It serves as a visual abbreviation of Jesus Christ and is often found on ecclesiastical textiles.",
    "date": "1700s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1933.304",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80006565"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Lace"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1933.304/1933.304_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1933.304/1933.304_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1933.304/1933.304_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Average: 11.5 x 129.6 cm (4 1/2 x 51 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy, Milan"
    ],
    "accession": "1933.304"
}

{
    "tec": "Linen: bobbin lace design on mesh ground",
    "tombstone": "Lace Edging, 1700s. Italy, Milan. Linen: bobbin lace design on mesh ground; average: 11.5 x 129.6 cm (4 1/2 x 51 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Louise Tifft Brown, 1933.304",
    "collection": "T - Lace",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "\"I H S.\" "
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Underhill, Gertrude. “Louise Tifft Brown Bequest of Lace.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 20, no. 10 (1933).",
            "page_number": "p. 157–59",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137585"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1933.304",
    "creditline": "Bequest of Louise Tifft Brown",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:59:29.658000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1933.304/1933.304_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 114019,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Lace",
    "med": "Linen: bobbin lace design on mesh ground",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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