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    "label": "Mirror with Linked Arcs and Kui Dragons",
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    "id": "159129",
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    "title": "Mirror with Linked Arcs and Kui Dragons",
    "description": "Inscription: I, Pan, have produced the design.",
    "date": "100s CE",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 15.3 cm (6 in.); Overall: 1.2 cm (1/2 in.); Rim: 0.5 cm (3/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE)"
    ],
    "accession": "1995.32"
}

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    "tec": "bronze",
    "tombstone": "Mirror with Linked Arcs and Kui Dragons (變燮連弧鏡), 100s CE. China, Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE). Bronze; diameter: 15.3 cm (6 in.); overall: 1.2 cm (1/2 in.); rim: 0.5 cm (3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee, 1995.320",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "變燮連弧鏡",
    "collection": "China - Han Dynasty",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "潘氏作鏡世少有，服者男分封候 ...宜孫子，樂無己。",
            "inscription_translation": "Master  Pan's mirror is rare in this world.\nHe who owns it would attain the rank of marquis...\nIt should be cherished by your descendants.\nMay your joy be endless."
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Chou, Ju-hsi. <em>Circles of reflection: the Carter collection of Chinese bronze mirrors</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: cat. no. 34, pp. 49, 107, 117"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee",
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