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"tombstone": "Medallions with confronting peacocks, 1660\u20131955 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability). Iran ?, in the style of the Buyid period (945\u20131055). Silk: lampas weave; overall: 59 x 57.4 cm (23 1/4 x 22 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mallon, 1968.73",
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"title": "Medallions with confronting peacocks",
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"measurements": "Overall: 59 x 57.4 cm (23 1/4 x 22 5/8 in.)",
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"inscription": "Inscription in border of oval, orthograde on the left and retrograde on the right, reads:\nhasha' dafiyah bayda' safiyah kan rawnaquha fi sarim dhakar; yuzayyin atrafaha turuz kama ruqimat 'al\u00e1 al-majarrah turuq al-anjum alzuhr",
"inscription_translation": "Beautiful, ample, white, and limpid, whose brilliance is that of a tempered blade; embroideries embellish its edges, as the paths of the brilliant stars have been traced on the Milky Way.",
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"inscription": "Inscription on the inner medallion, orthograde on the left and retrograde on the right, reads: \nma al-fakhr illa li-ahl al-'ilm innahum 'al\u00e1 al-hud\u00e1 li-man istahd\u00e1 adilla'",
"inscription_translation": "Only people of knowledge possess excellence. They are guides to the way for those who seek guidance.",
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{
"id": 301285,
"title": "Year in Review for 1968",
"description": "Year in Review for 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).",
"opening_date": "1969-01-29T05:00:00"
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"description": "Iran between East and West. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (June-August, 1966).",
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"description": "Paul [1884\u20131975] and Marguerite Mallon [d. 1977], New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"date": "?-1968",
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"description": "This textile preserves six ovals aligned in two vertical columns; the top two ovals are fragmentary. Columns are separated by two guard lines that are interrupted by smaller vertical almond-shaped motifs; these are tangent to the large ovals at the widest point. Each large oval, bordered by a band of floriated Kufic, has a central ogival medallion, also bordered with floriated Kufic, with palmettes at each end. The medallions are placed on a ground of white on white with small aligned circles. Interspaces between large ovals are filled with pairs of opposed palmette trees flanked at each end with confronting birds in flight.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1968.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 56, no. 1, 1969, pp. 3\u201350.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 7, no. 125 (detail); Mentioned: p. 48, no. 125",
"url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25152250"
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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.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 273",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n293"
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"citation": "Blair, Sheila S., Jonathan M. Bloom, and Anne E. Wardwell. \"Reevaluating the Date of the \"Buyid\" Silks by Epigraphic and Radiocarbon Analysis.\" Ars Orientalis 22 (1992): 1-41.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 39; Mentioned: p. 15",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/4629423"
},
{
"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: P. 154, fig. 4e; Mentioned: P. 154-155",
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}
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