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    "localId": "118317",
    "label": "Fragment with star and cross design from the tomb of Don Felipe",
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    "id": "118317",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Fragment with star and cross design from the tomb of Don Felipe",
    "date": "1200–1274",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.39",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80013230"
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        "Textile"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.39/1939.39_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Average: 54.6 x 38.1 cm (21 1/2 x 15 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Spain, probably Almeria"
    ],
    "accession": "1939.39"
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    "tec": "taqueté: silk and gold thread",
    "tombstone": "Fragment with star and cross design from the tomb of Don Felipe, 1200–1274. Spain, probably Almeria. Taqueté: silk and gold thread; average: 54.6 x 38.1 cm (21 1/2 x 15 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1939.39",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "\"Al-yamen\" (Success).",
            "sortorder": 1
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "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. 144",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25138043"
        },
        {
            "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 183, fig. 5.12; Mentioned: pp. 183–184"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.39",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:07:35.169000",
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    "sourceId": 118317,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "taqueté: silk and gold thread",
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}

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