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        "tombstone": "Bella Donna Charger, c. 1520\u201330. Italy, Papal States, Deruta. Tin-glazed earthenware with yellow and blue lustre (maiolica); diameter: 8.6 x 41.3 cm (3 3/8 x 16 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1923.1096",
        "current_location": "118 Italian Renaissance",
        "title": "Bella Donna Charger",
        "creation_date": "c. 1520\u201330",
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        "department": "Decorative Art and Design",
        "collection": "Decorative Arts",
        "type": "Ceramic",
        "measurements": "Diameter: 8.6 x 41.3 cm (3 3/8 x 16 1/4 in.)",
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            {
                "inscription": "with inscription:  IV BLLIA BELLA",
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            {
                "description": "(M. & R. Stora, Paris).",
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        "did_you_know": "Scholars believe that chargers such as these were given as marriage gifts or in memory of someone who had died.",
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        "description": "Ceremonial plates decorated with a <em>bella donna</em> (beautiful woman) feature half-length portraits of a young woman surrounded by scrolled banners. Many <em>bella donna</em> plates were informed by the frescos of Renaissance painters Pietro Perugino and Pinturicchio.",
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                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1923.1096-bella-donna-charger"
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            {
                "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. 91",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n115"
            },
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                "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. 91",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n115"
            },
            {
                "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. 102",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n122"
            },
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                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. T<em>he World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 45, fig. 47",
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