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    "label": "Les Ballades Françaises",
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    "title": "Les Ballades Françaises",
    "description": "After Léon Gruel's death in 1923, Paul Gruel took over his father's firm. Many of the designs attributed to him exhibit stylistic characteristics of Art Deco. This Egyptian-inspired binding employs a technique called \"onlay.\" The book was covered in a single piece of black leather; leathers of different colors were then pared extremely thinly and adhered to the base leather to form the pattern.",
    "provenance": "Owned by Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
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