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"title": "35th Anniversary Exhibition",
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"citation": "Foote, Helen. \"Shepherd and Shepherdess in Bow Porcelain.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 33, no. 3 (March 1946): 23-24.",
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