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    "localId": "118342",
    "label": "Silk Fragments",
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    "id": "118342",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Silk Fragments",
    "date": "1350–1399",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.41.a",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "wikidata": [
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 35.7 x 15 cm (14 1/16 x 5 7/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy, Lucchese, second half of 14th century"
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    "accession": "1939.41.a"
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    "tec": "lampas weave, brocaded; silk and gold thread",
    "tombstone": "Silk Fragments, 1350–1399. Italy, Lucchese, second half of 14th century. Lampas weave, brocaded; silk and gold thread; overall: 35.7 x 15 cm (14 1/16 x 5 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1939.41.a",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "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. 145",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25138043"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Wardwell, Anne E. “Flight of the Phoenix: Crosscurrents in Late Thirteenth- to Fourteenth-Century Silk Patterns and Motifs.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 74, no. 1 (January 1987): 2–35.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 29",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159970"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:07:37.356000",
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