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"title": "Incense Burner and Stand for an Altar Cross",
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"did_you_know": "This object may been have created for a traveling court with its entourage to use for Catholic Mass, where incense could be used in an easily transportable vessel.",
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"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 62-63",
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"citation": "Winter, Patrick M. de. \u201cThe Sacral Treasure of the Guelphs.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 1 (March 1985): 2\u2013160.",
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"citation": "Wilhelmy, Winfried, and Marcel Schawe. Meisterwerke des Bischo\u0308flichen Dom- und Dio\u0308zesanmuseums Mainz. Regensburg : Schnell + Steiner, 2020.",
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