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    "localId": "123709",
    "label": "Fragment with crowned lions, palmettes, and escutcheons",
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    "id": "123709",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Fragment with crowned lions, palmettes, and escutcheons",
    "description": "Pairs of yellow lions are framed beneath arches formed by elaborate green leaves in a sumptuous repeated pattern. The city of Granada in southern Spain, where the Alhambra palace stood, continued to be a major center for silk production and commerce through the 1500s. Because the upside-down shields contain no Arabic inscriptions, it was probably made after the fall of the last Muslim sultan to the Christian King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in 1492.",
    "date": "1400s-1500s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.240",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79901025"
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.240/1944.240_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.240/1944.240_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 54.3 x 27.5 cm (21 3/8 x 10 13/16 in.); Mounted: 64.5 x 37.1 cm (25 3/8 x 14 5/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Spain, Granada"
    ],
    "accession": "1944.24"
}

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    "tec": "Silk: lampas weave",
    "tombstone": "Fragment with crowned lions, palmettes, and escutcheons, 1400s-1500s. Spain, Granada. Silk: lampas weave; overall: 54.3 x 27.5 cm (21 3/8 x 10 13/16 in.); mounted: 64.5 x 37.1 cm (25 3/8 x 14 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1944.240",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "citations": [
        {
            "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. 209, fig. 5.42; Mentioned: P. 207"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.240",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:22:26.622000",
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    "sourceId": 123709,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "Silk: lampas weave",
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}

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