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        "type": "Sculpture",
        "measurements": "Overall: 3 x 2.8 x 3 cm (1 3/16 x 1 1/8 x 1 3/16 in.)",
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                    "id": 302084,
                    "title": "Year in Review: 1974",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1974</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).",
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                    "id": 207517,
                    "title": "Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience",
                    "description": "<i>Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 10-July 5, 1998); Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RI (August 25, 1998-January 3, 1999).",
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                    "description": "CMA, 11 March-6 April, 1975, The Year in Review for 1974, cat.: CMA Bulletin 62, no. 3 (March 1975), no. 5; CMA 1982, no. 10 (entry by Arielle P. Kozloff)",
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                    "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art (5/10/98 - 7/5/98); Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (8/25/98 - 1/3/99).  \"Gifts of the Nile:  Ancient Egyptian Faience,\" not in exh. cat.",
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                "description": "Purchased from Mathias Komor, New York",
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        "description": "Roaring lions are rare in Egyptian art. They are, however, a common fixture in Persian art, from which the lion head in this case undoubtedly takes its stylistic cue.",
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                "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1974.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 62, no. 3 (March 1975): 62\u2013102.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 97, no. 5",
                "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152580"
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                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. T<em>he World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 8, fig. 10",
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            },
            {
                "citation": "Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Boha\u010d.<em> Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 439-440, cat. no. 340",
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