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        "share_license_status": "CC0",
        "tombstone": "Fragments, 1420\u20131955. Iran or Iraq. Silk: compound twill weave; average: 71 x 77 cm (27 15/16 x 30 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1968.225",
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        "title": "Fragments",
        "creation_date": "1420\u20131955",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1420,
        "creation_date_latest": 1955,
        "artists_tags": [],
        "culture": [
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        "department": "Textiles",
        "collection": "T - Islamic",
        "type": "Textile",
        "measurements": "Average: 71 x 77 cm (27 15/16 x 30 5/16 in.)",
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                "height": 0.71,
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        },
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        "inscriptions": [
            {
                "inscription": "li-yasta 'malhu al-amir al-ajall Qawam al-Mulk Abu 'Abd Allah 'Isa bin Ibrahim al-Harithi atala Allah fi al-m'ali baqa['a]hu wa-harasa fi iqtifa[']al-makarim fana['a]hu",
                "inscription_translation": "Let the most illustrious amir Qawam al-Mulk Abu'Abd Allah 'Isa bin Ibrahim al-Harithi use it, may God prolong his remaining in high office and protect him against his weaknesses as he follows in the footsteps of men of noble character.",
                "inscription_remark": "Large Kufic inscription",
                "sortorder": null
            },
            {
                "inscription": "sana'ahu 'Ali bin Yusuf bin al-Marzuban al-...",
                "inscription_translation": "Ali bin Usuf bin al-Marzuban al-... made it.",
                "inscription_remark": "Small Kufic inscription",
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        ],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 301285,
                    "title": "Year in Review for 1968",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review for 1968</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).",
                    "opening_date": "1969-01-29T05:00:00"
                }
            ],
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        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "(Nassiri Amini, Tehran, Iran, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "?-1968",
                "sortorder": 1
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "date": "1968-",
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        "did_you_know": "The design is at right angles to the warp.",
        "description": "The weave provides different design for each side of this fragment. On the front, the overall lozenge pattern has alternating rows of ornamented ovals and diamonds. The large diamonds have a large four-leaved motif superimposed over a diamond with trees in each corner. The foliate ground with four pairs of opposed griffins fills the interspaces to the oval border. The diamonds have two opposed pairs of birds each flanking a Tree of Life and standing on a plant motif; these enclose a smaller central diamond with trees in each corner and a central square. <br><br>On the reverse, the plain ground of natural tan has two brown bands with large and small Kufic inscriptions.",
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80044180"
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                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1968.225-fragments"
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Blair, Sheila S., Jonathan M. Bloom, and Anne E. Wardwell. \"Reevaluating the Date of the \"Buyid\" Silks by Epigraphic and Radiocarbon Analysis.\" <em>Ars Orientalis</em> 22 (1992): 1-41.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 12; Mentioned: p. 11",
                "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/4629423"
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        "updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:06:41.467000"
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