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        "title": "Crescent-Shaped Earring",
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        "did_you_know": "Small gold cells were created to hold enamel paste of different colors; when fired, they harden and appear jewel-like.",
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                "citation": "Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.), and Dorothy Eugenia Miner.<em> Early Christian and Byzantine Art, An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25-June 22 [1947]</em>. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1947.",
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