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    "localId": "159371",
    "label": "A Child’s Coat with Ducks in Pearl Medallions and a Child's Pants",
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}

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    "id": "159371",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "A Child’s Coat with Ducks in Pearl Medallions and a Child's Pants",
    "description": "This luxurious silk coat for a young prince displays ducks in pearl roundels alternating with cross-shaped lotus blossoms woven in five radiant colors of silk. The ducks are adorned with imperial motifs adopted from the previous Sasanian dynasty in Iran including pearl collars, flying ribbons, and a jeweled necklace in their beaks. This silk was woven in Iran or Sogdiana; however, it is lined with Chinese silk damask and has a pair of pants also made with Chinese silk damask, both decorated in an 8th-century style of the Tang Dynasty.",
    "date": "700s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1996.2",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79978841"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Garment"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.2/1996.2_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.2/1996.2_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.2/1996.2_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 48 x 82.5 cm (18 7/8 x 32 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Iran or Central Asia, Sogdiana"
    ],
    "accession": "1996.2"
}

{
    "tec": "silk; weft-faced compound twill, samit",
    "tombstone": "A Child’s Coat with Ducks in Pearl Medallions and a Child's Pants, 700s. Iran or Central Asia, Sogdiana. Silk; weft-faced compound twill, samit; overall: 48 x 82.5 cm (18 7/8 x 32 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1996.2",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "didYouKnow": "Given the coat’s pristine condition, it is unclear whether it was ever worn, or if it was used instead as a diplomatic gift or perhaps as currency.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, “The Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires Major Works,” March 18, 1996, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr4027"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Wardwell, Anne E. \"Clothes for a Prince\", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 36 no. 08, October 1996",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 4-5",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1996-08/page/4"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Watt, James C. Y., Anne E. Wardwell, and Morris Rossabi. W<em>hen silk was gold: Central Asian and Chinese textiles</em>. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in cooperation with the Cleveland Museum of Art: Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1997.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 5, pp. 34-37; Reproduced: p. 36",
            "url": "https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/62194"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 65, fig. 2.27; 36, 41-42, 66-67, fig. 2.28; Mentioned: P. 65, 69"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Corty, Axelle. \"Mysterieuses Soieries d'Asie Central.\" <em>Connaissance des arts</em> 745 (Feb. 2016): 84-89.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 84-85"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"Highlights from North American Collections.\" <em>IDP News: Newsletter of the International Dunhuang Project</em>, no. 49-50, Summer 2017, pp. 4-7.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 7, fig. 5 (coat only)"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Asian Art Newspaper. \"The Splendor of Chinese Textiles: From the Silk Road to the Imperial Court.\" <em>The Asian Art Newspaper: Monthly for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries</em> 21, no. 6 (Summer 2018): 25.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 25"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Pritzker, David Thomas and Wang Xudong 王旭东, editors. <em>Cultural Exchange along the Silk Road: Masterpieces of the Tubo Period (7th-9th Century)</em> = 丝绸之路上的文化交流 : 吐蕃时期艺术珍品. Beijing: 中国藏学出版社 [China Tibetology Publishing House], 2020.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 28 (coat only), p. 38"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Williams, Elizabeth Dospel. \"Khirbat al-Mafjar and the Immersive Materiality of Early Medieval Interiors.\" In <em>Stucco in the Islamic World: Studies of Architectural Ornament from Spain to India</em>, Edited by Richard McClary, 44-61. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 56, fig. 3.9b"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1996.2",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-03 11:06:04.422000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.2/1996.2_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 159371,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "Textiles",
    "med": "silk; weft-faced compound twill, samit",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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