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        "objectID": 47517,
        "objectNumber": "59.149",
        "primaryTitle": "Tall Case Clock",
        "objectName": "tall case clock",
        "dated": "between 1775 and 1788",
        "classification": "Timepieces",
        "department": "American Art before 1950",
        "medium": "mahogany, pine, ivory, glass and brass (alloy)",
        "dimensions": "Overall: 87 × 20 3/4 × 11 inches (221 × 52.7 × 27.9 cm)"
    },
    "provenance": {
        "creditLine": "Gift of Mrs. Alger Shelden, Mrs. Susan Kjellberg, Mrs. Lyman White, Alexander Muir Duffield and Mrs. Oliver Pendar in memory of Helen Pitts Parker ",
        "provenance": "Elias Brown;\r\nBillings Brown;\r\nHenry Billings Brown;\r\nMrs. Arthur Maxwell Parker (neice of Henry Billings Brown's first wife);\r\n1959-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)",
        "signed": "Signed, on the face: Thomas Harland and Abishai Woodward",
        "inscribed": "",
        "markings": "A handwritten note inside the door reads: This clock was made by Thomas Harland of Norwich, Connecticut sometime between 1775 and 1795, was bought by my grandfather, Elias Brown of Preston, Ct. and was left to his youngest son, Billings Brown, my father, who gave it to me in 1865. Signed: H.B. Brown/Washington 1898. "
    },
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        {
            "displayName": "Thomas Harland",
            "role": "Artist",
            "nationality": "American",
            "bio": "American, 1735-1807"
        }
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    "rights": [
        {
            "type": "Public Domain",
            "copyright": "",
            "creditLineRepro": "Thomas Harland, Tall Case Clock, between 1775 and 1788, mahogany, pine, ivory, glass and brass (alloy). Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Alger Shelden, Mrs. Susan Kjellberg, Mrs. Lyman White, et al., 59.149."
        }
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            "name": "Chippendale",
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        "museum": "Detroit Institute of Arts",
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