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    "localId": "147813",
    "label": "Madonna with Christ Child and Saint John the Baptist",
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    "id": "147813",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Madonna with Christ Child and Saint John the Baptist",
    "date": "1500s",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 55.6 x 41 cm (21 7/8 x 16 1/8 in.)",
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    "tec": "tapestry weave, silk and gold thread",
    "tombstone": "Madonna with Christ Child and Saint John the Baptist, 1500s. Belgium, 16th century. Tapestry weave, silk and gold thread; overall: 55.6 x 41 cm (21 7/8 x 16 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, 1974.18",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "on ground to the left is a scroll which reads in mirror reverse: \"Ec[ce] Agnus De[i].\""
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    ],
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        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1974.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 62, no. 3 (March 1975): 62–102.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 71; Mentioned: p. 102, no. 156",
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