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    "localId": "95646",
    "label": "Coat",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
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    "id": "95646",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Coat",
    "date": "late 1880s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1357",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Garment"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1357/1916.1357_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 94 x 177.8 cm (37 x 70 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)"
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    "accession": "1916.1357"
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    "tec": "Silk, gold thread: embroidery",
    "tombstone": "Coat, late 1880s. China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Silk, gold thread: embroidery; overall: 94 x 177.8 cm (37 x 70 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade, 1916.1357",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "didYouKnow": "This was likely made for a wife of a wealthy merchant, whose business would rely on ships like the embroidered ones on the coat.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Silberstein, Rachel. \"Eight Scenes of Suzhou: Landscape Embroidery, Urban Courtesans, and Nineteenth-Century Chinese Women’s Fashions.\" Late Imperial China, Volume 36, Number 1, June 2015, pp. 1-52.",
            "page_number": "1-52"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1357",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:08:14.361000",
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    "dept": "Textiles",
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