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    "localId": "129207",
    "label": "Fragment with arcade and palmettes",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

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    "id": "129207",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Fragment with arcade and palmettes",
    "description": "Although geometric patterns were fashionable in all media throughout the Islamic world, examples in textiles are the most abundant from Islamic Spain. In this fragment, gold-thread strapwork interlaces to form stars above columns that frame colorful palmette leaves in a fine tapestry weave.",
    "date": "1200s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.105",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60759650"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.105/1952.105_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.105/1952.105_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.105/1952.105_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 17.8 x 10.8 cm (7 x 4 1/4 in.); Mounted: 26.4 x 19.7 cm (10 3/8 x 7 3/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Spain, probably Granada"
    ],
    "accession": "1952.105"
}

{
    "tec": "Silk and gold thread: tapestry weave",
    "tombstone": "Fragment with arcade and palmettes, 1200s. Spain, probably Granada. Silk and gold thread: tapestry weave; overall: 17.8 x 10.8 cm (7 x 4 1/4 in.); mounted: 26.4 x 19.7 cm (10 3/8 x 7 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1952.105",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Guiffrey, Jules, and Gaston Migeon. <em>La collection Kelekian. Étoffes &amp; tapis d'Orient &amp; de Venise</em>. Paris: Librairie centrale des beaux-arts, 1900.",
            "page_number": "pl. 20"
        },
        {
            "citation": "May, Florence Lewis. <em>Silk Textiles of Spain, Eighth to Fifteenth Century</em>. New York: Printed by order of the trustees, the Hispanic Society of America, 1957.",
            "page_number": "p. 68, 70, fig. 43"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 126",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n36"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 219",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n243"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 219",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n243"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 277",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n297"
        },
        {
            "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. 191, fig. 5.24; Mentioned: P.189, 192"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.105",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:40:05.833000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.105/1952.105_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 129207,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "Silk and gold thread: tapestry weave",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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