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"title": "Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India",
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"description": "This ivory carving was made to sheath wooden furniture made in India for trade along the Silk Road, which stretched from Rome to China. One lady adjusts the coiffure of another; a wicker stool is between them. Indian ivory-faced furnishings\u2014along with lacquer boxes from China and painted glass from Rome\u2014were found in an extraordinary deposit of luxury goods at a site called Begram.",
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \"The Year in Review for 1985.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 2 (1986): 26-71.",
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