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    "localId": "129208",
    "label": "Silk Fragments",
    "core": "obj",
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}

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    "id": "129208",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Silk Fragments",
    "date": "1200s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.106",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.106/1952.106_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Average: 68.6 x 64.4 cm (27 x 25 3/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Spain, Islamic period or Mudejar, 13th century"
    ],
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    "tec": "lampas weave, brocaded; silk and gold thread",
    "tombstone": "Silk Fragments, 1200s. Spain, Islamic period or Mudejar, 13th century. Lampas weave, brocaded; silk and gold thread; average: 68.6 x 64.4 cm (27 x 25 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1952.106",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy G. “Two Medieval Silks from Spain.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 45, no. 1, 1958, pp. 3–7.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 3-7",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25142255"
        },
        {
            "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. 219",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n243"
        },
        {
            "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. 219",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n243"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Bornstein, Christine Verzár, and Priscilla Parsons Soucek. <em>The Meeting of Two Worlds: The Crusades and the Mediterranean Context : [Exhibition], the University of Michigan Museum of Art, May 9-September 27, 1981</em>. Ann Arbor: The Museum, 1981.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 6, p. 28"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.106",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:40:03.067000",
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    "sourceId": 129208,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "Textiles",
    "med": "lampas weave, brocaded; silk and gold thread",
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