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    "localId": "95154",
    "label": "Velvet fragment from a palace curtain",
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    "id": "95154",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Velvet fragment from a palace curtain",
    "date": "1700s",
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    "imageCount": 1,
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 190.1 x 122.6 cm (74 13/16 x 48 1/4 in.)",
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    "tec": "taquete silk",
    "tombstone": "Velvet fragment from a palace curtain, 1700s. Iran. Taquete silk; overall: 190.1 x 122.6 cm (74 13/16 x 48 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1915.668",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
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        {
            "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": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 389, fig. 9.52"
        }
    ],
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