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"title": "Candelabrum Depicting an Allegorical Figure of Liberty",
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"title": "Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries",
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"citation": "Milliken, William Mathewson. \"European Porcelains Bequeathed by Mary Warden Harkness.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15, no. 2 (February 1928): 57-59.",
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