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    "localId": "142303",
    "label": "Ogives with Winged Quadrupeds and Peacocks",
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}

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    "id": "142303",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Ogives with Winged Quadrupeds and Peacocks",
    "description": "The design consists of aligned ogives in 4-1/2 rows and part or all of 6 columns; each ogive contains a running winged quadruped with an animal head. Floriated motifs emerge from the end of the tail and fill the interstices. The double border consists of an inner band with scrolling vine and an outer band of kufic inscription. Resulting columns of diamond-shaped interspaces are alternately ornamented with squares filled with diaper pattern on a foliate field and a pair of confronting, regardant peacocks flanking a tree of life.",
    "date": "1517–1950 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.134",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80041950"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.134/1966.134_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.134/1966.134_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 69.8 x 49.8 cm (27 1/2 x 19 5/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Iran ?, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)"
    ],
    "accession": "1966.134"
}

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    "tec": "Silk: lampas weave",
    "tombstone": "Ogives with Winged Quadrupeds and Peacocks, 1517–1950 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability). Iran ?, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055). Silk: lampas weave; overall: 69.8 x 49.8 cm (27 1/2 x 19 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Werner Abegg, 1966.134",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "\"kull ibn untha wa-in talat salamatuhu yawman 'ala alah badba' mahmul\"",
            "inscription_translation": "Every son of a female, e'en though his wellbeing may have lasted long, One day is carried off on a convex implement [i.e., a bier].",
            "inscription_remark": "Foliated kufic inscription is orthograde on left side and repeated in retrograde on right side."
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "“Annual Report for 1966.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 54, no. 6, 1967, pp. 159–197.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 177-178",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152162"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Blair, Sheila S., Jonathan M. Bloom, and Anne E. Wardwell. \"Reevaluating the Date of the \"Buyid\" Silks by Epigraphic and Radiocarbon Analysis.\" <em>Ars Orientalis</em> 22 (1992): 1-41.",
            "page_number": "Reprpoduced: p. 33; Mentioned: p. 15",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/4629423"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.134",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Werner Abegg",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:17:47.349000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.134/1966.134_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 142303,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "Silk: lampas weave",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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