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{
    "localId": "124138",
    "label": "Bowl with Geometric Designs",
    "core": "obj",
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{
    "id": "124138",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Bowl with Geometric Designs",
    "description": "This inlaid bowl has interlacing geometric designs in 12 arched panels that radiate from a star on the base. A pinwheel of six fish is engraved in the interior. Scholars recently reattributed them to Islamic manufacture, possibly for export to Europe.",
    "date": "1450–1500",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.133",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60759202"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metalwork"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1945.133/1945.133_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1945.133/1945.133_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1945.133/1945.133_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 13.2 cm (5 3/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Syria, Damascus, Burji Mamluk period, 15th Century"
    ],
    "accession": "1945.133"
}

{
    "tec": "sheet brass, inlaid with silver and gold",
    "tombstone": "Bowl with Geometric Designs, 1450–1500. Syria, Damascus, Burji Mamluk period, 15th Century. Sheet brass, inlaid with silver and gold; diameter: 13.2 cm (5 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1945.133",
    "collection": "Islamic Art",
    "didYouKnow": "The bowl's decorative panels contain six different geometric designs, each appearing twice, in opposing panels.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d.",
            "page_number": "N5245",
            "url": "https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll9/id/18102"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Foote, Helen. \"Venetian Bronze Bowl Inlaid with Silver and Gold.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>33, no. 7 (September 1946): 143-144.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 144; Reproduced: p. 147.",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141303"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Sims, Lowery Stokes. <em>The persistence of geometry: form, content, and culture in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 20, p. 116; Reproduced: p. 52"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.133",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 11:27:00.782000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1945.133/1945.133_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 124138,
    "dept": "Islamic Art",
    "coll": "Islamic Art",
    "med": "sheet brass, inlaid with silver and gold",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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