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"description": "Mrs. Chauncey J. [Mary Anne Italia Mitchell] Blair [1856\u20131940], Chicago, IL, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"description": "Iran is renowned for representations of large human figures in luxury silks during the Safavid period. Symbolic images of beauty and love characterize this signature silk in which a wine bearer appears in a landscape with cypresses and blossoming prunus trees, a pond, and a rocky hill along with animals of royal hunts. Cypresses and long-neck bottles were metaphors for elegance and male beauty while cypresses entwined by blossoming trees, paired pheasants, youth, and wine impart themes of love. The asymmetrical composition contrasts vitality and order, which contributes to concealing the repeated design inherent in patterned silks.",
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"citation": "Weibel, Ade\u0300le Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952.",
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"citation": "Flemming, Ernst, and Renate Jaques. Encyclopedia of Textiles: Decorative Fabrics from Antiquity to the Beginning of the 19th Century, Including the Far East and Peru. New York: Praeger, 1958.",
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"citation": "Wearden, Jennifer Mary, and Patricia L. Baker. Iranian Textiles. London: V & A Pub, 2010.",
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"citation": "Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.",
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"citation": "Munroe, Nazanin Hedayat. \u201cThe Patterns of Poetry.\u201d HALI; the international journal of Oriental carpets and textiles. Issue 224, Summer 2025.",
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