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    "localId": "126144",
    "label": "Pendant Plaque",
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    "id": "126144",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Pendant Plaque",
    "description": "Xochipala jade carvings are typically composed almost entirely of curved lines. These were executed with hollow circular drills (perhaps made of bird bone or bamboo) of different diameters. The result is an animated figure that appears to be dancing.",
    "date": "c. 700–1000",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.357",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Stone"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.357/1948.357_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.357/1948.357_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 9.5 x 6.7 cm (3 3/4 x 2 5/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Central Mexico, Xochicalco Style, 8th-10th Century"
    ],
    "accession": "1948.357"
}

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    "tec": "greenstone",
    "tombstone": "Pendant Plaque, c. 700–1000. Central Mexico, Xochicalco Style, 8th-10th Century. Greenstone; overall: 9.5 x 6.7 cm (3 3/4 x 2 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1948.357",
    "collection": "AA - Mesoamerica",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Milliken, William. \"Pre-Columbian Jade and Hard Stone.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>36, no. 4 (April 1949): 53-55.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 54; Reproduced: p. 59",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141547"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.357",
    "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:31:35.660000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.357/1948.357_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 126144,
    "dept": "Art of the Americas",
    "coll": "AA - Mesoamerica",
    "med": "greenstone",
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    "image_url": null
}

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