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{
    "localId": "124366",
    "label": "Fragment",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "124366",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Fragment",
    "description": "On this textile fragment, a pair of phoenixes, affronted and nonregardant, flanking a floral motif are framed in an ogive formed by a vine with trifoliate leaves. This, in turn, is framed with a scrolling vine with leaves and pairs of small birds. The design is in Cyprian gold on a coral ground.",
    "date": "1300s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.34",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79902203"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1945.34/1945.34_web.jpg",
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1945.34/1945.34_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 26.7 x 14 cm (10 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Iran or Iraq ?, Mongol period, 14th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1945.34"
}

{
    "tec": "Silk and gold thread; lampas",
    "tombstone": "Fragment, 1300s. Iran or Iraq ?, Mongol period, 14th century. Silk and gold thread; lampas; overall: 26.7 x 14 cm (10 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1945.34",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Wardwell, Anne E. “Flight of the Phoenix: Crosscurrents in Late Thirteenth- to Fourteenth-Century Silk Patterns and Motifs.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 74, no. 1 (January 1987): 2–35.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 2-35, fig. 13",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159970"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Indictor, Norman, Robert J. (Robert John) Koestler, Christopher Blair, and Anne E. Wardwell. “The Evaluation of Metal Wrappings from Medieval Textiles Using Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive x-Ray Spectrometry.” <em>Textile History</em> 19 (1). 1988.",
            "page_number": "p. 3-22"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.34",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:24:47.309000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1945.34/1945.34_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 124366,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "Silk and gold thread; lampas",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "mediaId": "b56c979c66a450ca"
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