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    "localId": "119351",
    "label": "Chafing Dish",
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    "id": "119351",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Chafing Dish",
    "description": "A small candle would have been placed under this dish for keeping the contents warm at the table.",
    "date": "c. 1730",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "with handle: 8.6 x 29.5 cm (3 3/8 x 11 5/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
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    "tec": "silver, wooden handle",
    "tombstone": "Chafing Dish, c. 1730. John Potwine (American, 1698–1792). Silver, wooden handle; with handle: 8.6 x 29.5 cm (3 3/8 x 11 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Hollis French, 1940.248",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "1531.1918"
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "French, Hollis. \"An Eighteenth Century American Brazier.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 5, no. 6/7 (1918): 64-65.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 66; Mentioned: pp. 64-65",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136205"
        },
        {
            "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": "Reproduced: p. 137; Mentioned: p. 141",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140882"
        },
        {
            "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. 123"
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