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"tombstone": "Velvet panel with four youths smelling flowers, 1625\u201350. Iran, Isfahan or Yazd, Safavid period (1501-1722). Silk: velvet, brocaded, and pile-warp substitution; gilt- and silver-metal thread; overall: 157.5 x 72.7 cm (62 x 28 5/8 in.); mounted: 167.6 x 83.2 cm (66 x 32 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1932.42",
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"title": "Velvet panel with four youths smelling flowers",
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"title": "2000 Years of Silk Weaving",
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"description": "A new style depicting single figures with limited modeling and European artistic influence was spearheaded by the Iranian painter Riza \u2018Abbasi and adopted by textile designers in sumptuous brocaded velvets. Even with faded colors, this grand length retains ten colors of velvet pile, a feat that Iranian velvet weavers achieved by skillfully replacing colored pile warp during weaving, and thereby creating the most colorful velvets in the world. Elegant youths dominate the simplified outdoor setting here with diminutive cypresses and silver ponds on a ground originally covered with gold thread. Fashionably dressed young men wear wide-brimmed hats, silver robes, stole-like scarves, and knotted sashes that are symbols of status and rank.",
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"page_number": "Mentioned; Vol. 1, p. 59",
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"citation": "Reath, Nancy Andrews, and Eleanor B. Sachs. Persian Textiles and Their Technique from the Sixth to the Eighteenth Centuries, Including a System for General Textile Classification. New Haven: Pub. for Pennsylvania Museum of Art by Yale University Press, 1937.",
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"citation": "Fifty Masterpieces of Textiles. [Victoria and Albert Museum Publications, 1950-1951]. London: H.M. Stationery Off, 1951.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 87, fig. 42",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 736",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n134"
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"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 45-46, cat. no. 89",
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"citation": "Ghirshman, Roman. Sept mille ans d'art en Iran: Petit Palais, Octobre 1961-Janvier 1962. Paris: Association francaise d\u2019action artistique, 1961.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n241"
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"citation": "Kahlenberg, Mary. \"A Mughal Personage Velvet.\" The Burlington Magazine 115, no. 848 (1973):",
"page_number": "p. 723-27",
"url": "www.jstor.org/stable/877527"
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"citation": "Irwin, John. \"'A\u015bokan' Pillars: A Reassessment of the Evidence.\" The Burlington Magazine 115, no. 848 (1973).",
"page_number": "p. 706-20, reproduced p. 721, fig. 23",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 276",
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"citation": "Wilson, Kax. A History of Textiles. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1979.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pl. 34",
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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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