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    "localId": "126749",
    "label": "Faience Plate",
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    "id": "126749",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Faience Plate",
    "description": "The use of colored ground with the irregularly shaped reserve panels with figural decorations reflects the influence of other European ceramics, particularly Meissen porcelain. The decorations of this plate are charmingly naive and demonstrate the efforts of Italian ceramic makers to keep abreast of current fashions in the field.",
    "date": "c. 1760",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.175",
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.175/1949.175_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 23.8 cm (9 3/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
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    "accession": "1949.175"
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    "tec": "faience",
    "tombstone": "Faience Plate, c. 1760. Felice Clerici (Italian). Faience; diameter: 23.8 cm (9 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of R. Thornton Wilson in memory of his wife, Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1949.175",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Foote, Helen. \"Two Ceramic Gifts.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>37, no. 1 (January 1950): 8-9, 13-14.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 9; Mentioned: p. 13",
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    "creditline": "Gift of R. Thornton Wilson in memory of his wife, Florence Ellsworth Wilson",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:32:25.421000",
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