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    "localId": "119263",
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    "id": "119263",
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    "title": "Mug",
    "date": "1680–1710",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "with handle: 8.9 x 11.6 cm (3 1/2 x 4 9/16 in.)",
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    "tec": "silver",
    "tombstone": "Mug, 1680–1710. John Coney (American, 1656–1722). Silver; with handle: 8.9 x 11.6 cm (3 1/2 x 4 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Hollis French, 1940.178",
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        {
            "citation": "Foote, Helen. \"A Collection of Early American Silver Gift of Hollis French.\"<em> The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>27, no. 9 (November 1940): 131-142",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 132",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140882"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 329",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n64"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Johnston, Phillip M. <em>Catalogue of American Silver: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1994.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 30"
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