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"tombstone": "A Child\u2019s Coat with Ducks in Pearl Medallions and a Child's Pants, 700s. Iran or Central Asia, Sogdiana. Silk; weft-faced compound twill, samit; overall: 48 x 82.5 cm (18 7/8 x 32 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1996.2",
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"title": "A Child\u2019s Coat with Ducks in Pearl Medallions and a Child's Pants",
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"type": "Garment",
"measurements": "Overall: 48 x 82.5 cm (18 7/8 x 32 1/2 in.)",
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"id": 211548,
"title": "When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art",
"description": "When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 26, 1997-January 4, 1998); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 2-May 17, 1998).",
"opening_date": "1997-10-19T00:00:00"
}
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{
"description": "Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 3, 2012-December 9, 2013). Coat only.",
"opening_date": "2012-12-03T05:00:00Z"
},
{
"description": "The Splendor of Chinese Silk \u2013 Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 5-August 12, 2018). Coat only.",
"opening_date": "2018-02-05T05:00:00Z"
}
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"description": "(Sara Tremayne, Ltd., London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"did_you_know": "Given the coat\u2019s pristine condition, it is unclear whether it was ever worn, or if it was used instead as a diplomatic gift or perhaps as currency.",
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"description": "This luxurious silk coat for a young prince displays ducks in pearl roundels alternating with cross-shaped lotus blossoms woven in five radiant colors of silk. The ducks are adorned with imperial motifs adopted from the previous Sasanian dynasty in Iran including pearl collars, flying ribbons, and a jeweled necklace in their beaks. This silk was woven in Iran or Sogdiana; however, it is lined with Chinese silk damask and has a pair of pants also made with Chinese silk damask, both decorated in an 8th-century style of the Tang Dynasty.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cThe Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires Major Works,\u201d March 18, 1996, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr4027"
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"citation": "Wardwell, Anne E. \"Clothes for a Prince\", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 36 no. 08, October 1996",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 4-5",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1996-08/page/4"
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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: Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1997.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 5, pp. 34-37; Reproduced: p. 36",
"url": "https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/62194"
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"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. 65, fig. 2.27; 36, 41-42, 66-67, fig. 2.28; Mentioned: P. 65, 69",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Corty, Axelle. \"Mysterieuses Soieries d'Asie Central.\" Connaissance des arts 745 (Feb. 2016): 84-89.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 84-85",
"url": null
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"citation": "\"Highlights from North American Collections.\" IDP News: Newsletter of the International Dunhuang Project, no. 49-50, Summer 2017, pp. 4-7.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 7, fig. 5 (coat only)",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Asian Art Newspaper. \"The Splendor of Chinese Textiles: From the Silk Road to the Imperial Court.\" The Asian Art Newspaper: Monthly for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries 21, no. 6 (Summer 2018): 25.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 25",
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},
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"citation": "Pritzker, David Thomas and Wang Xudong \u738b\u65ed\u4e1c, editors. Cultural Exchange along the Silk Road: Masterpieces of the Tubo Period (7th-9th Century) = \u4e1d\u7ef8\u4e4b\u8def\u4e0a\u7684\u6587\u5316\u4ea4\u6d41 : \u5410\u8543\u65f6\u671f\u827a\u672f\u73cd\u54c1. Beijing: \u4e2d\u56fd\u85cf\u5b66\u51fa\u7248\u793e [China Tibetology Publishing House], 2020.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 28 (coat only), p. 38",
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"citation": "Williams, Elizabeth Dospel. \"Khirbat al-Mafjar and the Immersive Materiality of Early Medieval Interiors.\" In Stucco in the Islamic World: Studies of Architectural Ornament from Spain to India, Edited by Richard McClary, 44-61. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 56, fig. 3.9b",
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