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    "localId": "119359",
    "label": "Marrow Scoop/Spoon",
    "core": "obj",
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}

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    "id": "119359",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Marrow Scoop/Spoon",
    "date": "c. 1790",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.255",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80014468"
    ],
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        "Silver"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.255/1940.255_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 2.1 cm (13/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "America, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia"
    ],
    "accession": "1940.255"
}

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    "tec": "silver",
    "tombstone": "Marrow Scoop/Spoon, c. 1790. Attributed to Joseph Richardson (American, 1752–1831). Silver; overall: 2.1 cm (13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Hollis French, 1940.255",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "engraved \"MDL\" in bright-cut script on back of larger scoop, and \"E\" in script on top of joint above smaller scoop."
        }
    ],
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "1026.1922"
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "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. 131"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Gift of Hollis French",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:09:58.487000",
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    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
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    ],
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