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    "localId": "146707",
    "label": "Fish with Curved Snout",
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    "id": "146707",
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    "title": "Fish with Curved Snout",
    "date": "1200–1000 BCE",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 7.3 cm (2 7/8 in.)",
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        "China, Shang dynasty (c. 1600–c. 1046 BCE) to Western Zhou dynasty (c. 1046–771 BCE)"
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    "tombstone": "Fish with Curved Snout, 1200–1000 BCE. China, Shang dynasty (c. 1600–c. 1046 BCE) to Western Zhou dynasty (c. 1046–771 BCE). Jade ; overall: 7.3 cm (2 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mary B. Lee, C. Bingham Blossom, Dudley S. Blossom III, Laurel B. Kovacik, and Elizabeth B. Blossom, in memory of Elizabeth B. Blossom, 1972.156",
    "collection": "China - Shang Dynasty",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1972.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 60, no. 3, 1973, pp. 63–115.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 114, no. 295",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25093732"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Chinese Jades, the Great Tradition: Exhibition Sponsored Jointly by Michigan Oriental Art Society and Cranbrook Institute of Science at Cranbrook Institute of Science ..</em>. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. [Michigan]: The Society, 1977.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: cat. no. 4, p. 9"
        }
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