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"tombstone": "Mantle for a Statue of the Virgin with Lotus Blossoms and Medallions, c. 1430. Egypt and Spain. Silk and gilt-metal thread: lampas weave; overall: 70.5 x 111.2 cm (27 3/4 x 43 3/4 in.); mounted: 78.1 x 119.4 cm (30 3/4 x 47 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1939.40",
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"title": "Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries",
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"title": "Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation)",
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"description": "according to Mr. Elsberg, the mantle came from a church near Valencia, Spain.",
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"description": "This costly royal silk with extensive gold thread was woven in Egypt and gifted or exported to Spain, where it was pieced into this mantle for a statue of the Virgin, probably to be worn during festivals and processions.
The sturdy silk brocade foundation cloth was also woven with a lighter weight silk damask with a repeating mirror image. Therefore, the Arabic inscription in the medallions reads both forward and backward: Glory to our master, the sultan, the king. The inscribed lobed roundels say The sultan, the king.",
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"citation": "Wardwell, Anne E. \"Flight of the Phoenix: Crosscurrents in Late Thirteenth- to Fourteenth-Century Silk Patterns and Motifs.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 1 (January 1987): 2\u201335.",
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"citation": "\u201cA Walking Tour: The entire new museum wing by wing, with curators calling out a few favorite works in the collection.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 54, no. 1 (January/February 2014): 8\u201333.",
"page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 27",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2014-01"
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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.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 240, 270\u2013271, fig. 7.31; Mentioned: p. 270",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016.",
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"citation": "Flood, Finbarr Barry, and Gu\u0308lru Necipog\u0306lu, eds. A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2017.",
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"citation": "Peinado, Laura Rodriguez. \"Los Textiles Como Objetos de Lujo y de Intercambio.\" In Las Artes en Al-Andalus y Egipto: Contextos e Intercambios. Susana Calvo Capilla, ed. Madrid: Ediciones de La Erg\u00e1stula, 2017.",
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