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{
    "localId": "119012",
    "label": "Cylindrical Storage Jar: Venus on the Sea Shore",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "119012",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Cylindrical Storage Jar: Venus on the Sea Shore",
    "description": "The scene depicted on this vessel, the goddess Venus emerging from the sea and drying her hair, is based on an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi dated September 11, 1506.",
    "date": "c. 1507–10",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.12",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80014200"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.12/1940.12_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.12/1940.12_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 29.8 x 18.9 cm (11 3/4 x 7 7/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy, Faenza, 16th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1940.12"
}

{
    "tec": "tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)",
    "tombstone": "Cylindrical Storage Jar: Venus on the Sea Shore, c. 1507–10. Italy, Faenza, 16th century. Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica); diameter: 29.8 x 18.9 cm (11 3/4 x 7 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1940.12",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Pringsheim, Alfred, Annette von Eckardt, and Otto von Falke. <em>Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim in München</em>. [Leiden]: A.W. Sijthoff, 1914.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: plate 50, cat. no. 85a"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Sotheby &amp; Co., London. <em>Catalogue of the Renowned Collection of Italian Majolica: The Property of Dr. Alfred Pringsheim of Munich, the Second and Final Portion.</em> July 19-20, 1939.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 99, cat. no. 332; Reproduced: [opposite page 99], cat. no. 332"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Milliken, William. \"Italian Majolica.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>27, no. 3 (March 1940): 32-25.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 33; Reproduced: p. 39",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25138082"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 218",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n49"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 89",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n113"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 89",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n113"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 103",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n123"
        },
        {
            "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. 40, fig. 42"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Falke, Otto von. <em>Le Maioliche Italiane della Collezione Pringsheim. </em>[Ferrara?]: Belriguardo Arte,1994.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: plate 50"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.12",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 11:27:00.729000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.12/1940.12_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 119012,
    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
    "coll": "Decorative Arts",
    "med": "tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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