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        "tombstone": "Plaque from a Portable Altar: Zacharias at the Altar, c. 1100\u20131125. Germany, Rhine Valley, Cologne?, Romanesque period, 12th century. Ivory; overall: 8.6 x 7.7 cm (3 3/8 x 3 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John L. Severance in memory of J. H. Wade, 1926.212",
        "current_location": "106C Medieval Treasury",
        "title": "Plaque from a Portable Altar: Zacharias at the Altar",
        "creation_date": "c. 1100\u20131125",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1100,
        "creation_date_latest": 1125,
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        "department": "Medieval Art",
        "collection": "MED - Romanesque",
        "type": "Ivory",
        "measurements": "Overall: 8.6 x 7.7 cm (3 3/8 x 3 1/16 in.)",
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            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 312341,
                    "title": "The Silver Jubilee Exhibition",
                    "description": "<i>The Silver Jubilee Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).",
                    "opening_date": "1941-06-23T04:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": []
        },
        "provenance": [
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                "description": "Count Pourtales, St. Petersburg; (Durlacher Brothers, New York).",
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        "description": "This delicate ivory plaque may once have decorated a side of a portable altar. It likely depicts the angel of the Lord appearing to the priest Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, at the altar in the temple. Like the identity of the object in Zacharias\u2019s hands, the identity of the couple accompanying the priest remains unclear.",
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                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1926.212-plaque-from-a-portab"
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            {
                "citation": "W. M. M. \u201cA Romanesque Ivory.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 13, no. 8 (October 1926): 176\u2013178.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 176-178",
                "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136960"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Milliken, William. \"Mr. Severance's Gifts to the Museum.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>23, no. 2 (February 1936): 17-27",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 24; Mentioned: p. 25-26",
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