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    "localId": "125094",
    "label": "Brocaded Velvet",
    "core": "obj",
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}

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    "id": "125094",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Brocaded Velvet",
    "date": "c. 1500",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.74",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Average: 111.8 x 31.5 cm (44 x 12 3/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Turkey, early 16th Century"
    ],
    "accession": "1946.74"
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    "tec": "velvet: silk, brocaded with gold and silver",
    "tombstone": "Brocaded Velvet, c. 1500. Turkey, early 16th Century. Velvet: silk, brocaded with gold and silver; average: 111.8 x 31.5 cm (44 x 12 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1946.74",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Dreger, Moriz. Künstlerische entwicklung der weberei und stickerei; innerhalb des europäischen kulturkreises von der spätantiken zeit bis zum beginne des XIX jahrhunderts; mit ausschluss der volkskunst. Wien: K.K. Hof-und Staatdruckerei, 1904.",
            "page_number": "taf. 154"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Paul Cassirer Verlag. Die Sammlung Dr. Albert Figdor, Wien, erster Teil, fünfter Band. 1930.",
            "page_number": "no. 58 taf XXIII"
        },
        {
            "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. 25, no. 177, pl. 48"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Weibel, Adèle Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952.",
            "page_number": "p. 141, no. 225"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Mackie, Louise W. \"Pomp and Grace: Ottoman Velvets of the Fifteenth Century.\" In Peter, Michael, and Sophie Desrosiers. <em>Velvets of the Fifteenth Century</em>. 2020, 178.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced; p. 178, fig. 7."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Heinemann, Rudolf J., and Adolf Feulner. Aus dem Besitz der Stiftung Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz. Castagnola/Lugano: Villa Favorita, 1949.",
            "page_number": "no. 478"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.74",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:27:38.196000",
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    "sourceId": 125094,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "velvet: silk, brocaded with gold and silver",
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    "image_url": null
}

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