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    "localId": "152245",
    "label": "Chariot Handle Bar Cap",
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    "id": "152245",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Chariot Handle Bar Cap",
    "date": "475–221 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.128",
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    "wikidata": [
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 9.5 x 7.1 cm (3 3/4 x 2 13/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Warring States period (475–221 BCE)"
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    "accession": "1985.128"
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    "tec": "bronze inlaid with silver",
    "tombstone": "Chariot Handle Bar Cap, 475–221 BCE. China, Warring States period (475–221 BCE). Bronze inlaid with silver; overall: 9.5 x 7.1 cm (3 3/4 x 2 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in appreciation of Dr. Sherman E. Lee's contribution to the study of Far Eastern Art by Eskenazi Limited, London, 1985.128",
    "collection": "China - Zhou Dynasty",
    "didYouKnow": "The cap was partially inlaid with silver to form the pattern of three stylized bird heads radiating from center.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1985.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 73, no. 2 (February 1986): 26–71.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 35; Mentioned: p. 70, no. 195",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159930"
        }
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    "creditline": "Gift in appreciation of Dr. Sherman E. Lee's contribution to the study of Far Eastern Art by Eskenazi Limited, London",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:51:57.213000",
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