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    "localId": "122178",
    "label": "Chest of Drawers (Commode)",
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    "id": "122178",
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    "title": "Chest of Drawers (Commode)",
    "date": "c. 1750",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.497",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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        "Furniture and woodwork"
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 88 x 156.5 x 69.9 cm (34 5/8 x 61 5/8 x 27 1/2 in.)",
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    "collection": "Furniture",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Milliken, William. \"Marquetry Bombé Commode.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>30, no. 7 (September 1943): 117-118.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 116; Mentioned: p. 117.",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141075"
        },
        {
            "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. 298",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n59"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 137",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n161"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 137",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n161"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hawley, Henry H. “Jean-Pierre Latz, Cabinetmaker.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 57, no. 7 (September/October 1970): 203–259.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 242-243, no. 35",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152340"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 180",
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