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    "localId": "130203",
    "label": "Arc-shaped Pendant with Animal Mask and Interlaced Animal Bands (Huang)",
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    "id": "130203",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Arc-shaped Pendant with Animal Mask and Interlaced Animal Bands (Huang)",
    "date": "300–100 BCE",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 12.8 cm (5 1/16 in.)",
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        "China, Warring States period (475–221 BCE) to Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE)"
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    "tombstone": "Arc-shaped Pendant with Animal Mask and Interlaced Animal Bands (Huang), 300–100 BCE. China, Warring States period (475–221 BCE) to Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE). Nephrite; overall: 12.8 cm (5 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous Gift, 1952.571.2",
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    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "1952.572"
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    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "<em>The Chinese Exhibition; A Commemorative Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, November 1935-March 1936</em>. London: Faber and Faber, 1936.",
            "page_number": "cat. nos. 329 and 332"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Nott, Stanley Charles. <em>Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages; A Review of Its Characteristics, Decoration, Folklore and Symbolism</em>. London: B.T. Batsford, 1936.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: pl. XIX"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “Chinese Carved Jades.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 41, no. 4 (April 1954): 67–68, 71.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 67–68",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141956"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. <em>A History of Far Eastern Art</em>. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced:  p. 48, pl. 45"
        },
        {
            "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. 246",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n270"
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