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"title": "When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art",
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"description": "This silk depicts pairs of horsemen hunting ibexes (mountain goats). The ibexes and two pairs of rabbits originally filled the spaces between rows of large floral roundels. Portions of the roundels are preserved at the top and bottom. Although the design was greatly influenced by silks from Egypt and Syria, the abstract style is typically Sogdian, from an area in Central Asia. This is one of many Sogdian silks that were traded to Europe and eventually preserved in church treasuries.",
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"citation": "Mu\u0308ller-Christensen, Sigrid, Mechthild Flury-Lemberg, and Karen Stolleis. Documenta textilia: Festschrift fu\u0308r Sigrid Mu\u0308ller-Christensen. Mu\u0308nchen: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1981.",
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"citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy G. \u201cZandaniji Revisited.\u201d In Documenta textilia: Festschrift fu\u0308r Sigrid Mu\u0308ller-Christensen. Mu\u0308ller-Christensen, Sigrid, Mechthild Flury-Lemberg, and Karen Stolleis, editors. Mu\u0308nchen: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1981.",
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"citation": "Wardwell, Anne E. \u201cRecently Discovered Textiles Woven in the Western Part of Central Asia Before A.D. 1220.\u201d Textile History 20 (2): 175\u201384.",
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"citation": "Watt, James C. Y., Anne E. Wardwell, and Morris Rossabi. When silk was gold: Central Asian and Chinese textiles. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in cooperation with the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1997.",
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