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"title": "Plate from Dessert Service: Nettle Leaved Bell Flower",
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"title": "The Flowering of the Botanical Print",
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"citation": "Hawley, Henry. \"European Porcelain: The Millikin Collection.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 1 (1993): 3-35.",
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