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    "localId": "142637",
    "label": "Clock",
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    "id": "142637",
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    "title": "Clock",
    "date": "c. 1750",
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            "inscription": "inscribed on face:  Baumgartnger [sic] Mergentheim."
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        {
            "citation": "Hawley, Henry. “A Rococo Clock.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 54, no. 7 (September 1967): 209–214.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 209-214, Cover",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152166"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 151",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n175"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 167",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n187"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Franklin, David. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> London: Scala Arts &amp; Heritage Publishers Ltd., 2012.",
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