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    "localId": "94775",
    "label": "Pair of Earrings with Vishnu Riding Garuda",
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    "id": "94775",
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    "title": "Pair of Earrings with Vishnu Riding Garuda",
    "description": "These earrings were made to hang on large bronze sculptures of deities worshipped in Nepalese temples. Nepalese craftsmen excelled at the detailed encrustation of jewels to depict complex figural imagery. They shaped gold wires into a framework, then inserted polished stones into the spaces, held in place with an adhesive. Four-armed Vishnu is made of sapphires; his mount the man-eagle appears to be made of carnelian and spinel with wings of turquoise.",
    "date": "1600s or 1700s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.342",
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    "tec": "Gold set with precious and semiprecious stones",
    "tombstone": "Pair of Earrings with Vishnu Riding Garuda, 1600s or 1700s. Gold set with precious and semiprecious stones. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade, 1915.342",
    "collection": "Nepalese Art",
    "didYouKnow": "The father of Jeptha Homer Wade II (1857–1926), who owned these earrings, gave the land for the museum and Wade Oval.",
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.342",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:02:56.714000",
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