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    "localId": "144939",
    "label": "Thumb Ring",
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    "id": "144939",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Thumb Ring",
    "description": "Jade rings were worn by men on the thumb of the right hand to assist with holding and pulling the string of the archer’s bow. However, thumb rings were also fashionable accessories for civil officials in the late Qing dynasty.",
    "date": "1736–95",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.140",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 3.5 cm (1 3/8 in.); Overall: 2.5 cm (1 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong reign (1736–95)"
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    "accession": "1970.14"
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    "tec": "spinach green jade",
    "tombstone": "Thumb Ring, 1736–95. China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong reign (1736–95). Spinach green jade; diameter: 3.5 cm (1 3/8 in.); overall: 2.5 cm (1 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. John Lyon Collyer in memory of her mother, Mrs. G. M. G. Forman, 1970.140",
    "collection": "China - Qing Dynasty",
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        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1970.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 58, no. 2, 1971, pp. 22–71.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 70, cat. 147",
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