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    "localId": "95084",
    "label": "Spearhead",
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    "id": "95084",
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    "title": "Spearhead",
    "date": "1045–256 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.619",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 19.1 cm (7 1/2 in.)",
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        "China, Zhou dynasty (c. 1046–256 BCE)"
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    "tec": "bronze",
    "tombstone": "Spearhead, 1045–256 BCE. China, Zhou dynasty (c. 1046–256 BCE). Bronze; overall: 19.1 cm (7 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1915.619",
    "collection": "China - Zhou Dynasty",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "Two ancient characters incised on the blade.",
            "sortorder": 1
        },
        {
            "inscription_translation": "The storage box has an inscription by a previous collector, Wu Yun 吳雲 (1811–1883), which dates to autumn of the renshen year of Emperor Tongzhi's reign [1872].",
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        }
    ],
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
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    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Wu Yun 吳雲. <em>Liangleixuan yiqi tushi </em>兩罍軒彝器圖釋<em>: </em>[12卷]. Beijing: 中國書店, 1873.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: vol. 8, pp. 5–6"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:04:43.561000",
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