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{
    "localId": "118470",
    "label": "Fragment with peacocks in ogival pattern",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "118470",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Fragment with peacocks in ogival pattern",
    "description": "Neither the design nor the technique of this silk provides clues to whether it was woven in Iran or Syria. As Iran and Iraq fell to the Mongol armies during the second quarter of the 1200s, many artisans fled to Syria, taking with them the techniques and patterns with which they were familiar. The inscriptions are purely decorative.",
    "date": "1004–1260 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.506",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80013306"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.506/1939.506_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.506/1939.506_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.506/1939.506_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 24.1 x 22.9 cm (9 1/2 x 9 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Iran or Iraq, possibly Rayy"
    ],
    "accession": "1939.506"
}

{
    "tec": "Silk: plain weave with supplementary weft",
    "tombstone": "Fragment with peacocks in ogival pattern, 1004–1260 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability). Iran or Iraq, possibly Rayy. Silk: plain weave with supplementary weft; overall: 24.1 x 22.9 cm (9 1/2 x 9 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1939.506",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "Pseudo-Arabic decorative inscriptions",
            "sortorder": 1
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "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. 102, p. 108"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lemberg, Mechthild. “The Buyid Silks of the Abegg Foundation, Berne.” <em>Bulletin du CIETA. Centre international d'étude des textiles anciens</em>. No. 37 1973 – I. p. 11–54",
            "page_number": "p. 45, no. 51"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy G. \"Medieval Persian Silks in Fact and Fancy: A Refutation of the Riggisberg Report\". <em>Bulletin Du CIETA, Centre International D'étude Des Textiles Anciens</em> (1974) 39–40.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 49 b-c, p. 13, 18"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Blair, Sheila S., Jonathan M. Bloom, and Anne E. Wardwell. \"Reevaluating the Date of the \"Buyid\" Silks by Epigraphic and Radiocarbon Analysis.\" <em>Ars Orientalis</em> 22 (1992): 1–41.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p 29; Mentioned: p. 15",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/4629423"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Baker, Patricia L. <em>Islamic Textiles</em>. London: British Museum Press, 1995.",
            "page_number": "p. 45"
        },
        {
            "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. 37, fig. 1.20d, p. 152, fig. 4.24; Mentioned: pp. 33, 151, 215"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.506",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:07:47.785000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.506/1939.506_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 118470,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "Silk: plain weave with supplementary weft",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.506/1939.506_web.jpg",
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