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    "localId": "98748",
    "label": "Fragment of a furnishing textile",
    "core": "obj",
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}

{
    "id": "98748",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Fragment of a furnishing textile",
    "description": "This fragment strongly resembles a component of furnishing textiles produced in the city of Chefchaouen, Morocco. While this is a cut fragment, the full textile would consist of several embroidered panels.",
    "date": "1600s–1700s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.43",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79485523"
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Embroidery"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.43/1918.43_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 48.9 x 33 cm (19 1/4 x 13 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Africa, North Africa, Morocco, Chefchaouen, Moroccan embroiderer"
    ],
    "accession": "1918.43"
}

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    "tec": "Linen, silk, dye",
    "tombstone": "Fragment of a furnishing textile, 1600s–1700s. Africa, North Africa, Morocco, Chefchaouen, Moroccan embroiderer. Linen, silk, dye; overall: 48.9 x 33 cm (19 1/4 x 13 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade, 1918.43",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Stone, Caroline. <em>The Embroideries of North Africa</em>. Burnt Mill, Harlow, Essex: Longman, 1985.",
            "page_number": "p. 18"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Denamur, Isabelle, Pierre Ferbos, and Louise Rogers Lalaurie. <em>Moroccan textile embroidery</em>. Paris: Flammarion, 2003.",
            "page_number": "pp. 90–91"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Alaoui, Rachida. <em>Florilège de la broderie marocaine</em>. [Milan]: Skira, 2011.",
            "page_number": "p. 172"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.43",
    "creditline": "Gift of J. H. Wade",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:20:04.666000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.43/1918.43_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 98748,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "Linen, silk, dye",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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