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{
    "localId": "98504",
    "label": "Velvet with gold discs",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "98504",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Velvet with gold discs",
    "description": "Silk velvet with rich pile is one of the most opulent and prestigious fabrics, especially when embellished with gold thread. This is one of the earliest known velvets. A 1295 inventory of Pope Boniface VIII includes \"a piece of red Tartar velvet with gold discs,\" which probably refers to this velvet pattern. It is attributed to Iran, possibly in Tabriz where Italian agents resided and could have provided the transfer of silk-velvet technology to Italy. Although the origin of velvet is uncertain, silk velvet with an extra silk pile warp was probably developed in a silk weaving country such as Iran. Inventive Iranian weavers may have developed it during the 1200s or earlier; they are acclaimed for producing the most colorful velvets ever during the 1500s and 1600s.",
    "date": "late 1200s or earlier",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.225",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79484515"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Velvet"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.225/1918.225_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.225/1918.225_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 30.5 x 20.6 cm (12 x 8 1/8 in.); Mounted: 34.9 x 25.4 cm (13 3/4 x 10 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Iran, probably Tabriz, Ilkhanid period"
    ],
    "accession": "1918.225"
}

{
    "tec": "silk, gilt-metal thread; brocaded velvet",
    "tombstone": "Velvet with gold discs, late 1200s or earlier. Iran, probably Tabriz, Ilkhanid period. Silk, gilt-metal thread; brocaded velvet; overall: 30.5 x 20.6 cm (12 x 8 1/8 in.); mounted: 34.9 x 25.4 cm (13 3/4 x 10 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1918.225",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "relatedWorks": [
        {
            "id": 98591,
            "description": "Velvet Fragment in Two Pieces, 1300s. Iran or Iraq, 14th century. Velvet, lancé, silk and Cyprian gold around silk core; overall: 27.9 x 17.8 cm (11 x 7 in.); mounted: 35.6 x 28.3 cm (14 x 11 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1918.30.b"
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Wardwell, Anne E. \"Panni Tartarici: Eastern Islamic Silks Woven with Gold and Silver (13th and 14th Centuries).\" In <em>Islamic Art III, </em>95-173. New York: The Islamic Art Foundation, 1989.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 95-173; Reproduced: Fig. 57, 77"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hoeniger, Cathleen S. “Cloth of Gold and Silver: Simone Martini's Techniques for Representing Luxury Textiles.” <em>Gesta</em> 30 (2): 154–62.",
            "page_number": "p. 160"
        },
        {
            "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 and Mentioned: P. 228, fig. 6.13"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.225",
    "creditline": "Dudley P. Allen Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:18:57.950000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.225/1918.225_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 98504,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "silk, gilt-metal thread; brocaded velvet",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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