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"tombstone": "Four-color Velvet with Medici Armorial in Rosettes, 1450\u20131500. Italy, Florence. Silk, velvet: cut pile and voided; overall: 211.5 x 40 cm (83 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.); mounted: 222.3 x 49.5 x 7.6 cm (87 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 3 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1943.67",
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"title": "Four-color Velvet with Medici Armorial in Rosettes",
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"measurements": "Overall: 211.5 x 40 cm (83 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.); Mounted: 222.3 x 49.5 x 7.6 cm (87 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 3 in.)",
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"id": 312151,
"title": "2000 Years of Silk Weaving",
"description": "2000 Years of Silk Weaving. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 18-April 16, 1944).",
"opening_date": "1944-01-09T05:00:00"
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{
"id": 309887,
"title": "The Twain Shall Meet",
"description": "The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).",
"opening_date": "1985-10-30T05:00:00"
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{
"id": 381187,
"title": "Renaissance Textiles (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115",
"description": "Renaissance Textiles (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 14, 2012-December 10, 2013).",
"opening_date": "2012-11-14T05:00:00"
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"description": "(French and Co.)",
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"description": "This polychrome velvet displays the heraldic design of the Medici family of Florence, where it was probably made. The device of crimson balls on a yellow ground appears in the centers of the colorful rosettes. Gilt-metal thread forms the heraldic ground in more lavish examples. The striped selvage helps identify the late 15th-century dating. The rosette pattern created with four colors of pile warp is silhouetted on the ivory satin weave foundation, known as voided velvet. Its color scheme and tile-like design have often been associated with influence from Islamic lands, most likely Turkey.",
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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.",
"page_number": "p. 124, cat. no. 146",
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