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    "localId": "124763",
    "label": "Savonnerie Panel: Autumn",
    "core": "obj",
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    "id": "124763",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Savonnerie Panel: Autumn",
    "description": "Courtiers and aristocrats anxious to model their lifestyles on the king also commissioned works from the same state manufactories that produced tapestries, carpets, and upholstery for the French monarchy. Established in the early 1600s, the Savonnerie factory provided both domestic furnishings for the king’s palaces and diplomatic gifts for foreign heads of state. The double coat of arms in this tapestry suggests that it was made for a count and countess who married in 1717. One of a group of four tapestries depicting the seasons, this work depicts the abundant harvest of fall. The Cleveland Museum of Art rotates this tapestry with another from this group. The other two tapestries in the suite can be seen at the Toledo Museum of Art.",
    "date": "c. 1717",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.247",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.247/1946.247_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 297.2 x 218.5 cm (117 x 86 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France, 18th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1946.247"
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    "tec": "knotted pile, silk and wool",
    "tombstone": "Savonnerie Panel: Autumn, c. 1717. Royal Savonnerie Manufactory, Chaillot Workshops (French, est. 1627). Knotted pile, silk and wool; overall: 297.2 x 218.5 cm (117 x 86 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1946.247",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "relatedWorks": [
        {
            "id": 129250,
            "description": "Panel: Spring, c. 1715. Royal Savonnerie Manufactory, Chaillot Workshops (French, est. 1627). Savonnerie knotted-pile (144 symmetrical rug knots per square inch); wool, hemp; overall: 274.3 x 219.7 cm (108 x 86 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1952.14",
            "relationship": "related series"
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Underhill, Gertrude. \"A Savonnerie Panel: Autumn.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>34, no. 1 (January 1947): 7-8, 13.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 7; Reproduced: p. 10-11",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141331"
        },
        {
            "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: cat. no. 291",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n58"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 133"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.247",
    "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
    "galleryDonorText": "Samuel Rosenthal Family Gallery",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:26:06.985000",
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    "sourceId": 124763,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "Textiles",
    "med": "knotted pile, silk and wool",
    "creatorTags": [
        "gender unknown"
    ],
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    "image_url": null
}

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