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    "localId": "140348",
    "label": "Desk Chair with Swivel Mechanism",
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    "id": "140348",
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    "title": "Desk Chair with Swivel Mechanism",
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    "tec": "walnut with caning and leather upholstery",
    "tombstone": "Desk Chair with Swivel Mechanism, c. 1780. France, Paris. Walnut with caning and leather upholstery; overall: 88.4 cm (34 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection, 1964.298",
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            "citation": "Hawley, Henry. \"French Furniture: The Millikin Collection.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 78, no. 5 (September 1991): 222-243.",
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