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    "localId": "124976",
    "label": "Teapot",
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    "id": "124976",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Teapot",
    "description": "This teapot may have belonged to Dr. Enoch F. Edwards, George Washington’s personal physician.",
    "date": "c. 1790",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.424",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "with handle: 16.2 x 25.8 cm (6 3/8 x 10 3/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
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    "tec": "silver",
    "tombstone": "Teapot, c. 1790. John David (American, 1736–1793). Silver; with handle: 16.2 x 25.8 cm (6 3/8 x 10 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1946.424",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "engraved:  \"EFE\" in script ."
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Foote, Helen. \"Silver Teapot by John David.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>34, no. 3 (March 1947): 49.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 46; Mentioned: p. 49",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141352"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Johnston, Phillip M. <em>Catalogue of American Silver: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1994.",
            "page_number": "mentioned& reproduced P 41",
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        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:27:16.427000",
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