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    "localId": "126011",
    "label": "Beaker (\"Welcome Glass\") with Arms and Inscriptions",
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    "id": "126011",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Beaker (\"Welcome Glass\") with Arms and Inscriptions",
    "description": "The inscription tells that this beaker was given by Thomas V. Sanitz zu Brausfelde Erbsessen to welcome his cousin Hans V. Sanitz.",
    "date": "1616",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.233",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 30.7 x 13.1 cm (12 1/16 x 5 3/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Germany"
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    "accession": "1948.233"
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    "tec": "enameled glass",
    "tombstone": "Beaker (\"Welcome Glass\") with Arms and Inscriptions, 1616. Germany. Enameled glass; overall: 30.7 x 13.1 cm (12 1/16 x 5 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon, 1948.233",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "THOMAS V. SANITZ ZU BRAUSZFELDE ERBSESSENN HABE MEINEN VETTER HANS V. SANITZ DISZ GLASZ ZUM WILLKOMMEN VEREHRETT. (Thomas von Sanitz has given this glass to my cousin, Hans von Sanitz, in welcome.)"
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Foote, Helen. \"German Enameled Glass.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>36, no. 1 (January 1949): 7-8, 13.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 2; Mentioned: p. 8",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141526"
        },
        {
            "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. 258",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n54"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon",
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    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
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