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    "localId": "148098",
    "label": "Sugar Bowl",
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    "id": "148098",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Sugar Bowl",
    "date": "c. 1879",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.114.3",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 6.4 x 8.2 cm (2 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "America, New York"
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    "tec": "silver inlaid with copper and gold",
    "tombstone": "Sugar Bowl, c. 1879. Tiffany & Co. (America, New York, est. 1837). Silver inlaid with copper and gold; overall: 6.4 x 8.2 cm (2 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, 1975.114.3",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "engraved:  E.J.W.B./from/A.M./Xmas 1879.  (The A.M. may refer to Alfred Morrison, a wealthy man who supported contemporary decorative arts by collecting them for his London house.)"
        },
        {
            "inscription": "Stamped underside: \"Tiffany + Co.\\ 5401 M 2987\\ Sterling-silver\\ and-\\ other\\- metals\\ 909\""
        }
    ],
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        "1975.116"
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    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1975.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 63, no. 2 (February 1976): 31–71.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 47; Mentioned: p. 66, no. 39",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152624"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Johnston, Phillip M. <em>Catalogue of American Silver: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1994.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 154"
        }
    ],
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    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:36:45.225000",
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