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    "localId": "95022",
    "label": "Chest",
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}

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    "id": "95022",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Chest",
    "description": "Lift-top storage chests with drawers are one of the most typical furniture forms of the 1700s. Although this chest was clearly made by someone far removed from more sophisticated English examples, its maker produced a distinctly energetic form. The carved decoration includes an intricate tulip-and-leaf pattern. The letters \"AA\" in the center of the blocks on either side of the central motif indicate the chest was probably made for a young woman with those initials.",
    "date": "1690–1720",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.569",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60743763"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Furniture and woodwork"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.569/1915.569_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.569/1915.569_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 96.9 x 122.9 x 47.3 cm (38 1/8 x 48 3/8 x 18 5/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "America, Massachusetts, Connecticut River Valley (Hampshire county), late 17th - early 18th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1915.569"
}

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    "tec": "oak",
    "tombstone": "Chest, 1690–1720. America, Massachusetts, Connecticut River Valley (Hampshire county), late 17th - early 18th century. Oak; overall: 96.9 x 122.9 x 47.3 cm (38 1/8 x 48 3/8 x 18 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1915.569",
    "collection": "Furniture",
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "198.1915"
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Adams, Henry. <em>What's American about American art?: a gallery tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 32 - 33"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.569",
    "creditline": "Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust",
    "galleryDonorText": "Leigh and Mary Carter Gallery",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:04:24.244000",
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    "sourceId": 95022,
    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
    "coll": "Furniture",
    "med": "oak",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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