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    "localId": "108542",
    "label": "Mirror",
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    "id": "108542",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Mirror",
    "description": "The predominant motifs on this mirror, the lion and the grapevine, were both foreign to China. The popularity of this mirror type, which lasted until the fall of the Tang dynasty, demonstrates the cosmopolitan tastes of wealthy Chinese during this extremely prosperous and artistically vigorous period.",
    "date": "618–907",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)",
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        "China, Tang dynasty (618–907)"
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    "tec": "bronze",
    "tombstone": "Mirror, 618–907. China, Tang dynasty (618–907). Bronze; diameter: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1926.248",
    "collection": "China - Tang Dynasty",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 72, no. 6 (October 1985): 326–59.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 345, fig. 35",
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    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:48:45.825000",
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