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Paris: E\u0301ditions du Che\u0302ne, 1955.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Ettinghausen, Richard. \u201cThe \u2018Wade Cup\u2019 in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Its Origin and Decorations.\u201d <em>Ars Orientalis</em>, vol. 2, 1957, pp. 327\u2013366.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 327\u2013366", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/4629041"}, {"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. 708", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n129"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 209", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n233"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 209", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n233"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 265", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n285"}, {"citation": "May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. <em>Knockouts: A Pocket Guide</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.", "page_number": "Mentioned: no. 73, p. 118; Reproduced: p. 70", "url": null}, {"citation": "Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. <em>Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.", "page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 102-103", "url": null}, {"citation": "Blair, Sheila. <em>Text and Image in Medieval Persian Art</em>. 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