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    "localId": "150488",
    "label": "Lily of the Valley Comb",
    "core": "obj",
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{
    "id": "150488",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Lily of the Valley Comb",
    "description": "This comb was purchased by Cleveland native Jeptha Homer Wade II from Lalique after admiring the designer's work at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, probably for his wife Ellen Garretson Wade. Pearlescent horn forms the leaves of the lily of the valley, out of which the delicate, bell-shaped enamel flowers emerge.",
    "date": "c. 1900",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1981.49",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60749031"
    ],
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    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Jewelry"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1981.49/1981.49_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 15.4 x 9.4 x 3 cm (6 1/16 x 3 11/16 x 1 3/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France, early 20th Century"
    ],
    "accession": "1981.49"
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    "tec": "horn, enamel and gold",
    "tombstone": "Lily of the Valley Comb, c. 1900. René Lalique (French, 1860–1945). Horn, enamel and gold; overall: 15.4 x 9.4 x 3 cm (6 1/16 x 3 11/16 x 1 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry, 1981.49",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "Engraved on side of gold stem: \"LALIQUE\""
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Lalique valued the use of horn for its transparent qualities and natural color.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Lalique, René, Yvonne Brunhammer, and Sigrid Barten.<em> The Jewels of Lalique</em>. New York: Flammarion, 1998.",
            "page_number": "p. 26, cat. no. 71"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1981.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 69, no. 2 (February 1982): 39–82.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 57; Mentioned: p. 79, no. 41",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159758"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Harrison, Stephen, Emmanuel Ducamp, Jeannine J Falino. <em>Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique.</em> Cleveland, Ohio:  Cleveland Museum of Art in association with New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2008.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 258; Mentioned: P. 334, no. 162"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1981.49",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:45:51.909000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1981.49/1981.49_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 150488,
    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
    "coll": "Decorative Arts",
    "med": "horn, enamel and gold",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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