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"title": "Relief Decorated Ceramics Through the Ages",
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"citation": "Foote, Helen. \"A Gift of Continental Ceramics.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 35, no. 10 (December 1948): 224, 229.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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