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    "localId": "122297",
    "label": "Chest",
    "core": "obj",
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    "id": "122297",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Chest",
    "date": "1550–99",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.604",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60779396"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Furniture and woodwork"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.604/1942.604_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.604/1942.604_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 96.5 x 165.1 x 71.8 cm (38 x 65 x 28 1/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France, Normandy"
    ],
    "accession": "1942.604"
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    "tec": "oak",
    "tombstone": "Chest, 1550–99. France, Normandy. Oak; overall: 96.5 x 165.1 x 71.8 cm (38 x 65 x 28 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance, 1942.604",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "John Long Severance Art Collection Photographs: Furniture, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 209; Reproduced p. 211",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceFurniture/page/n208/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. [37], Plate XVII, cat. no. 52; Mention: p. 39, cat. no. 52",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n43"
        },
        {
            "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. 141",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141017"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 246",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n52"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 101",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n125"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 101",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n125"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 118",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n138"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.604",
    "creditline": "Bequest of John L. Severance",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:17:44.158000",
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    "sourceId": 122297,
    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
    "coll": "Decorative Arts",
    "med": "oak",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
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