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    "localId": "116641",
    "label": "Silk fragment",
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}

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    "id": "116641",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Silk fragment",
    "description": "Silk of double cloth weave with design of lengthwise bands of ornament between bands of inscription.",
    "date": "1100s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.23",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60748384"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1937.23/1937.23_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1937.23/1937.23_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1937.23/1937.23_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 36.8 x 23.5 cm (14 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.); Mounted: 47 x 33.7 cm (18 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Egypt or Iran, Ayyubid period, 1100s"
    ],
    "accession": "1937.23"
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    "tec": "lampas: silk",
    "tombstone": "Silk fragment, 1100s. Egypt or Iran, Ayyubid period, 1100s. Lampas: silk; overall: 36.8 x 23.5 cm (14 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.); mounted: 47 x 33.7 cm (18 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1937.23",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "Design of lengthwise bands of ornament between bands of inscription which duplicate each other and read: \"To owner victory and kingdom.\"",
            "sortorder": 1
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Pope, Arthur Upham, Phyllis Ackerman, and Theodore Bestermann. <em>A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present</em>. London: Oxford University Press, 1938. v. III",
            "page_number": "no. 29, pp. 2012, 2035, fig. 647"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Underhill, Gertrude. \"Two Early Iranian Silks.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 25, no. 3 (March 1938).",
            "page_number": "pp. 42–45",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25137913"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Los Angeles County Museum. <em>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</em>. New York: E. Weyhe, 1944.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 7, pl. 15"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Los Angeles County Museum. <em>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</em>. New York: E. Weyhe, 1944.",
            "page_number": "no. 52, pl. 15"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Weibel, Adèle Coulin. <em>Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East</em>. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952.",
            "page_number": "no. 111"
        },
        {
            "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. 688",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n126"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Jairazbhoy, R. A. <em>Oriental Influences in Western Art</em>. New York: Asia Pub. House, 1965.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: pl. 72"
        },
        {
            "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. 214",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n238"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Wehrahn-Stauch, L. \"Animal Motifs on Fabrics [Animaux d l'Ancient Orient, Le Cahiers CIBA],\" <em>CIBA Review</em> (1967), p. 12, pl. 5."
        },
        {
            "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. 214",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n238"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Ettinghausen, Richard. <em>From Byzantium to Sasanian Iran and the Islamic World; Three Modes of Artistic Influence</em>. Leiden: Brill, 1972.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: pl. XVI, fig. 56"
        },
        {
            "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. 149, fig. 4.20; Mentioned: pp. 33,147, 148, 204, 215"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Mühlemann, Corinne. <em>Complex Weaves: Technique, Text, and Cultural History of Striped Silks</em>. Affalterbach: Didymos-Verlag, 2023.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 49–50, fig. 16"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.23",
    "creditline": "Dudley P. Allen Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:04:29.853000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1937.23/1937.23_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 116641,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "lampas: silk",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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