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    "localId": "144672",
    "label": "Bedspread",
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    "id": "144672",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Bedspread",
    "date": "1600s–1700s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.295",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79922158"
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Embroidery"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.295/1969.295_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 271.7 x 223.5 cm (106 15/16 x 88 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "India, Goa"
    ],
    "accession": "1969.295"
}

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    "tec": "Silk on cotton; embroidery",
    "tombstone": "Bedspread, 1600s–1700s. India, Goa. Silk on cotton; embroidery; overall: 271.7 x 223.5 cm (106 15/16 x 88 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1969.295",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "didYouKnow": "The design features biblical scenes with Indian mythological characters and Portuguese-costumed figures embroidered in chain stitch.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "“Annual Report for 1969.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 57, no. 6 (June 1970): 163–193.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 177.",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152335"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lubell, Cecil. <em>Textile Collections of the World</em>. London: Studio Vista, 1976.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 27"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Karl, Barbara. <em>Embroidered Histories: Indian Textiles for the Portuguese Market During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. </em>Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2016.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 116; Mentioned: no. 8, pp. 149–155, 297"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.295",
    "creditline": "The Norweb Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:26:08.544000",
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    "sourceId": 144672,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "Textiles",
    "med": "Silk on cotton; embroidery",
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    "image_url": null
}

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