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{
    "localId": "125230",
    "label": "Silk Sleeve Decoration with Hunters",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "125230",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Silk Sleeve Decoration with Hunters",
    "description": "This silk sleeve blends technical and stylistic elements that occurred in early Islamic art. The sides of the sleeve are decorated with a lotus flower design, an ancient Egyptian motif that was absorbed into Hellenistic and Byzantine art. The upper panel displays a large medallion composed of leaves and palmettes, common vegetal motifs in Islamic art of this period. Below, the mace-wielding horseman is identified in Coptic inscriptions as Joseph, father of Jesus and saint within the Coptic faith. The image is likely derived from the Byzantine representation of the victorious emperor.",
    "date": "700s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.193",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79903582"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.193/1947.193_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.193/1947.193_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.193/1947.193_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 28.9 x 20.3 cm (11 3/8 x 8 in.); Mounted: 37.8 x 29.2 cm (14 7/8 x 11 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Egypt or Syria, Umayyad period (661–750) or Abbasid period (750–1258)"
    ],
    "accession": "1947.193"
}

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    "tec": "Silk: complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit)",
    "tombstone": "Silk Sleeve Decoration with Hunters, 700s. Egypt or Syria, Umayyad period (661–750) or Abbasid period (750–1258). Silk: complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit); overall: 28.9 x 20.3 cm (11 3/8 x 8 in.); mounted: 37.8 x 29.2 cm (14 7/8 x 11 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1947.193",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "didYouKnow": "At the bottom, men with spears hunt ostrich.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy. \"A Coptic Silk.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 34, no. 9 (1947): 216-37.",
            "page_number": "p. 236-37",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25141411"
        },
        {
            "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. 91, no. 54"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Akin, Esra. <em>Muthanna / History, Theory, and Aesthetics</em>. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 114, fig. 4.3"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.193",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:28:03.676000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.193/1947.193_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 125230,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "Silk: complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit)",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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