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    "localId": "118366",
    "label": "Lampas with foliate roundels",
    "core": "obj",
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}

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    "id": "118366",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Lampas with foliate roundels",
    "description": "This textile shows the development of the Hispano-Moresque style in the 1300s. The bright green, blue, white, and gold design against a rich red ground produces a jewel-like quality that was not seen again after the end of the century.",
    "date": "1300s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.42",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80013245"
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 31.4 x 22.9 cm (12 3/8 x 9 in.); Mounted: 34.3 x 27.9 cm (13 1/2 x 11 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Spain, Granada, Nasrid period"
    ],
    "accession": "1939.42"
}

{
    "tec": "lampas: silk and gold thread",
    "tombstone": "Lampas with foliate roundels, 1300s. Spain, Granada, Nasrid period. Lampas: silk and gold thread; overall: 31.4 x 22.9 cm (12 3/8 x 9 in.); mounted: 34.3 x 27.9 cm (13 1/2 x 11 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1939.42",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Underhill, Gertrude. \"Textiles from the H. A. Elsberg Collection.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 26, no. 9 (1939): 143-46.",
            "page_number": "p. 144",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25138043"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Los Angeles County Museum. 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. 1944.",
            "page_number": "p. 18, no. 129, pl. 36"
        },
        {
            "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. 131",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n36"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Indictor, Norman, Robert J. (Robert John) Koestler, Christopher Blair, and Anne E. Wardwell. “The Evaluation of Metal Wrappings from Medieval Textiles Using Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive x-Ray Spectrometry.” <em>Textile History</em> 19 (1). 1988.",
            "page_number": "p. 3-22"
        },
        {
            "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. 201, fig. 5.34; Mentioned: P. 200."
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.42",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:07:39.148000",
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    "sourceId": 118366,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "lampas: silk and gold thread",
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    "image_url": null
}

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