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    "localId": "119311",
    "label": "Cream Jug",
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    "id": "119311",
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    "title": "Cream Jug",
    "date": "1740–50",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.219",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "with handle: 9.9 x 8.8 cm (3 7/8 x 3 7/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
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    "tec": "silver",
    "tombstone": "Cream Jug, 1740–50. Jacob Hurd (American, 1702–1758). Silver; with handle: 9.9 x 8.8 cm (3 7/8 x 3 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Hollis French, 1940.219",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "engraved:  coat of arms on front of body, underneath spout, and ECP (later) in script on bottom."
        }
    ],
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "1529.1918"
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    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Foote, Helen. \"A Collection of Early American Silver Gift of Hollis French.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>27, no. 9 (November 1940): 131-142.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 135; Reproduced: back cover",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140882"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 326",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n64"
        },
        {
            "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. 80"
        }
    ],
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