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    "title": "Lute",
    "date": "c. 1550",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 91.5 x 34 cm (36 x 13 3/8 in.)",
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    "tec": "wood, laminated parchment?, sound hole, bone, ebonized wood, and mother of pearl inlay",
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            "citation": "\"Accessions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 5, no. 8/9 (1918): 82-85.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 82",
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            "citation": "D. S. M. \"Exhibition of Musical Instruments.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 8, no. 9 (1921): 134-43.",
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