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"inscription": "On the upper part of the arms of the small standing figure: \"al-barakah\" [blessing].",
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"inscription": "At top of textile: \"baqayta amir al-mu'minin fa-innama baqa['u]ka hasan lil-zaman wa-tay-yib\"",
"inscription_translation": "Thou hast remained Commander of the Believers, and indeed, Thy remaining is (a) handsome and good (thing) for the age",
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"title": "Year in Review (1963)",
"description": "Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964).",
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"title": "Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions",
"description": "Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966).",
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"id": 455362,
"title": "Arts of Islam",
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"description": "Schematic Drawing of Buyid Silk (1962.264), 1900s. F\u00e9lix Guichert (French). Ink on paper; overall: 58 x 125 cm (22 13/16 x 49 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Paul Mallon 1964.441",
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"description": "Schematic Drawings of Buyid Silk (1962.264), 1900s. F\u00e9lix Guichert (French). Ink on paper; overall: 63.7 x 48.3 cm (25 1/16 x 19 in.); second section: 17.3 x 44.5 cm (6 13/16 x 17 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Paul Mallon 1964.442",
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"did_you_know": "The top inscription is a line by poet Al-Wal\u012bd ibn Ubaidillah Al-Bu\u1e25tur\u012b (821\u2013897).",
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"description": "A design in dark brown on a background of dark tan preserves five nearly complete double-headed \"eagles\" and almost half of a sixth, arranged in aligned rows. Each eagle grasps griffins in its talons. Small birds decorate the shoulders of its wings, and on the wing of each small bird is inscribed with the word \u201cmercy.\u201d Superimposed on the eagle, as if being carried, is a small standing human figure which bears on the upper part of its arms the word \u201cblessing.\u201d At the top of the textile, a Kufic inscription repeats a line from the diwan, collected poetry, of al-Buhturi.",
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"citation": "Wiet, Gaston. Soieries Persanes. Le Caire: Imprimerie de L'Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale, 1948.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. IX, pp. 55\u201363; Reproduced: pls. X and XI",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"citation": "Lemberg, Mechthild. \u201cThe Buyid Silks of the Abegg Foundation, Berne.\u201d Bulletin du CIETA. Centre international d'e\u0301tude des textiles anciens. No. 37 1973 \u2013 I. p. 11-54",
"page_number": "p. 49, no. 678",
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"citation": "Corbin, Henry. Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth: From Mazdean Iran to Shi\u02bbite Iran. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977.",
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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.",
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