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    "localId": "118296",
    "label": "Lampas with scenes of wild animals",
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    "id": "118296",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Lampas with scenes of wild animals",
    "date": "1500s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.38.d",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 19 x 8.5 cm (7 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Iran, Safavid period (1501–1722)"
    ],
    "accession": "1939.38.d"
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{
    "tec": "Silk and gold: lampas weave, brocaded",
    "tombstone": "Lampas with scenes of wild animals, 1500s. Iran, Safavid period (1501–1722). Silk and gold: lampas weave, brocaded; overall: 19 x 8.5 cm (7 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1939.38.d",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "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.",
            "page_number": "Vol. VI, Pl. 1041"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Underhill, Gertrude. \"Textiles from the H. A. Elsberg Collection.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 26, no. 9 (November 1939): 143–146.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 146",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25138043"
        },
        {
            "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": "Reproduced: pl. 64"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Woven Treasures of Persian Art; Persian Textiles from the 6th to the 19th Century</em>. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum, 1959.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 35, cat. no. 55"
        },
        {
            "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": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 349–350, fig. 9.8"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.38.d",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:07:30.989000",
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    "sourceId": 118296,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "Silk and gold: lampas weave, brocaded",
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