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    "localId": "109397",
    "label": "Dancer",
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    "id": "109397",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Dancer",
    "date": "1927",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1927.65",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 27.9 cm (11 in.)",
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    "tombstone": "Dancer, 1927. Cowan Pottery Studio (America, Rocky River, Ohio, 1920–1931), Alexander Blazys (American, born Russian Empire [now Lithuania], 1894–1963). Mold-made ceramic, glazed; overall: 27.9 cm (11 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Educational Purchase Fund, 1927.65",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Cowan Potters, Inc. Entry Card to 1927 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMS01290"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hawley, Henry. “Cowan Pottery and the Cleveland Museum of Art.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 76, no. 7 (September 1989): 238–263.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 244-245, fig. 5",
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