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    "localId": "101410",
    "label": "Teapot",
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    "id": "101410",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Teapot",
    "description": "This teapot was made by Jacob Hurd, the father of Nathaniel Hurd whose portrait by John Singleton Copley is in gallery 204. The finial is probably not original to this teapot.",
    "date": "c. 1740",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.225",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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        "Silver"
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 14.8 x 22.6 cm (5 13/16 x 8 7/8 in.); without handle: 12.6 cm (4 15/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "America, Massachusetts, Boston"
    ],
    "accession": "1920.225"
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    "tec": "silver",
    "tombstone": "Teapot, c. 1740. Jacob Hurd (American, 1702–1758). Silver; overall: 14.8 x 22.6 cm (5 13/16 x 8 7/8 in.); without handle: 12.6 cm (4 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade, 1920.225",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "engraved coat of arms of Whipple."
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "L. P. \"A Teapot by Jacob Hurd.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 7, no. 7 (1920): 96.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 96-97; Reproduced: Front Matter",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136393"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Johnston, Phillip M. <em>Catalogue of American Silver: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1994.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 83"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.225",
    "creditline": "Gift of J. H. Wade",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:29:12.762000",
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        "male"
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