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    "localId": "116083",
    "label": "Altar Cloth",
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    "id": "116083",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Altar Cloth",
    "date": "1800s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1936.77",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "wikidata": [
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        "Embroidery"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1936.77/1936.77_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 35.6 x 291.7 cm (14 x 114 13/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy(?)"
    ],
    "accession": "1936.77"
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    "tec": "Plain weave cotton: needle lace (drawnwork), appliqué, and embroidery",
    "tombstone": "Altar Cloth, 1800s. Italy(?). Plain weave cotton: needle lace (drawnwork), appliqué, and embroidery; overall: 35.6 x 291.7 cm (14 x 114 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Frances McIntosh Sherwin Collection, 1936.77",
    "collection": "T - Ecclesiastical",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Underhill, Gertrude. “The Frances McIntosh Sherwin Collection of Lace.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 23, no. 4 (1936).",
            "page_number": "p. 53–54",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137765"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "The Frances McIntosh Sherwin Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:04:26.802000",
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    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Ecclesiastical",
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}

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