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Journey of a Soul to Heaven
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Hard-paste porcelain
Rights: Public Domain
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of R. Thornton Wilson in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson 1945
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