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"title": "Quatrilobed Plaque (pair): The Annunciation and The Descent from the Cross",
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{
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"title": "When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story",
"description": "When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 1, 1981-January 17, 1982).",
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"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 205, no. 36; Reproduced: p. 174-175",
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"citation": "Richter, Rainer. \"Between Original and Imitation: Four Technical Studies in Basse-Taille Enameling and Re-Enameling of the Historicism Period.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 7 (1994): 222-51.",
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