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    "localId": "122285",
    "label": "Table Desk (bureau plat)",
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    "id": "122285",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Table Desk (bureau plat)",
    "date": "c. 1750",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.591",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 80 x 178.5 x 95.3 cm (31 1/2 x 70 1/4 x 37 1/2 in.)",
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    "tec": "wood marquetry with gilt bronze mounts",
    "tombstone": "Table Desk (bureau plat), c. 1750. Jacques Dubois (French, 1693–1763). Wood marquetry with gilt bronze mounts; overall: 80 x 178.5 x 95.3 cm (31 1/2 x 70 1/4 x 37 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance, 1942.591",
    "collection": "Furniture",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "John Long Severance Art Collection Photographs: Furniture, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 23; Reproduced: p. 19",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceFurniture/page/n22/mode/1up"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. [42], Plate XX, cat. no. 71; Mention: p. 44, cat. no. 71",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n48"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Milliken, William M., Gertrude Underhill, and Jean Mailey. \"Department of Decorative Arts.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 29, no. 9 (November 1942): 137-151.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 142",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141017"
        }
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