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    "localId": "156147",
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    "tec": "lacquer",
    "tombstone": "Winged Cup (Erbei), c. 206–100 BCE. China, Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE). Lacquer; overall: 18.9 cm (7 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1991.7",
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    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "inscribed:  Taiguan",
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    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Wilson, J. Keith, and Anne E. Wardwell. \"New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>81, no. 8 (1994): 270–347.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 301, cat. no. 19; Mentioned: pp. 300–302, 346, cat. no. 19",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161465"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Chen, Yi. \"Drinking Like a Chinese, or Not? New Drinking Vessels and Practices in China's Middle Period.\" In <em>A Movable Feast: The Culture of Food and Drink in China, e</em>dited by Nicole T. C. Chiang, 59-86. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Palace Museum, 2025.",
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