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"description": "2000 Years of Silk Weaving. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 18-April 16, 1944); Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (May 12-June 4, 1944); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (January 9-February 29, 1944).",
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"description": "Amidst small floral motifs, deer, and antelopes, cheetahs in one row attack deer, while in the alternating row lions seize wild asses.",
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"page_number": "Vol. VI, Pl. 1041",
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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": "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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