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    "localId": "123513",
    "label": "Armchair (Fauteuil) (1 of 2)",
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    "title": "Armchair (Fauteuil) (1 of 2)",
    "description": "M. Roger and Anne Clapp Gallery",
    "date": "c. 1785",
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        {
            "inscription": "signed on back of frame of seat underneath:  Delaisement with inverted \"s.\""
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            "citation": "<em>Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection : Bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944.</em> [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. [45], Plate XIX, cat. no. 27-28; Mentioned: p. 49-50, cat. no. 27-28",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/Prentiss/page/n53"
        },
        {
            "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. 158",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n182"
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        {
            "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. 190",
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