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    "localId": "130081",
    "label": "Ewer",
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    "id": "130081",
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    "title": "Ewer",
    "date": "1700s or later",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)"
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    "tec": "jade",
    "tombstone": "Ewer, 1700s or later. China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Jade; overall: 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous Gift, 1952.477",
    "collection": "China - Ming Dynasty",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “Chinese Carved Jades.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 41, no. 4 (April 1954): 67–71.",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141956"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Wilson, J. Keith. \"Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 77, no. 8 (1990): 286-323.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 297, 317",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161297"
        }
    ],
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    "updatedAt": "2026-06-17 11:19:43.783000",
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