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    "label": "Ornamental Root",
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    "id": "30802",
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    "contentType": "object",
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    "title": "Ornamental Root",
    "description": "In traditional China, a natural root was sometimes considered a suitable ornament for a table in the study of an educated man.",
    "provenance": "Source unknown, 1993",
    "date": "19th century or earlier (Qing)",
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