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{
    "localId": "128948",
    "label": "Candlestick",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "128948",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Candlestick",
    "description": "Candlesticks were a common type of luxury good in the Islamic world during the medieval period. The extensive decoration on this piece is arranged in bands with roundels displaying birds in flight and leaf-like scrolls on a background of hexagonal swastikas. These ancient motifs are thought to have been sun symbols and were sometimes used as a background pattern for metalwork at this time.",
    "date": "1250–1350",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.539",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60750482"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metalwork"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.539/1951.539_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.539/1951.539_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.539/1951.539_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 24.4 cm (9 5/8 in.); Diameter of base: 21.3 cm (8 3/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Eastern Anatolia"
    ],
    "accession": "1951.539"
}

{
    "tec": "sheet brass inlaid with silver",
    "tombstone": "Candlestick, 1250–1350. Eastern Anatolia. Sheet brass inlaid with silver; overall: 24.4 cm (9 5/8 in.); diameter of base: 21.3 cm (8 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1951.539",
    "collection": "Islamic Art",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "none"
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "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 and Reproduced: cat. no. 713",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n130"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 209",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n233"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 209",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n233"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 265",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n285"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lima Taub, Stefanie. \"Celebrate Light: Holiday opportunities for illumination.\" <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>63, no. 4 (2023): 36–37.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 36",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2023-04/page/36/mode/2uphttps://archive.org/details/CMAMM2023-04/page/36/mode/2up"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.539",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:39:41.349000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.539/1951.539_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 128948,
    "dept": "Islamic Art",
    "coll": "Islamic Art",
    "med": "sheet brass inlaid with silver",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.539/1951.539_web.jpg",
    "mediaId": "eb4c6697021072a3"
}