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    "localId": "123540",
    "label": "Chinese Fair",
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    "id": "123540",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Chinese Fair",
    "date": "1723–74",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.134",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Tapestry"
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 308 x 293.1 cm (121 1/4 x 115 3/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France, 18th century, Period of Louis XV (1723-1774)"
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    "tombstone": "Chinese Fair, 1723–74. Beauvais (French), Jean Joseph Dumons (French, 1687–1779), after a design by François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Tapestry weave: silk and wool; overall: 308 x 293.1 cm (121 1/4 x 115 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection, 1944.134",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "P.W. French &amp; Co. <em>Royal Beauvais Tapestry, The Chinese Fair ... Presented by Louis XV to the Emperor Kien-Lung</em>. New York: French, n.d."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hunter, George Leland. <em>Loan Exhibition of Tapestries: Cleveland Museum of Art, October 5th to December 1st Inclusive, 1918</em>. [Cleveland]: [The Museum], 1918.",
            "page_number": "p. 24, no. 43"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hunter, George Leland. <em>Beauvais-Boucher Tapestries</em>. New York: 1919.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 29; Reproduced: p. 244"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss collection : bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944</em>. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 66; Reproduced: Plate XXIX",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/Prentiss/page/n65"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Underhill, Gertrude. \"Tapestries.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 31, no. 6 (June 1944): 102–103, and 93.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 102–103; Reproduced: p. 93",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25141134"
        },
        {
            "citation": "“The Chinese Fair.” <em>Bulletin - The Minneapolis Institute of Arts.</em> XXXV (May 1946)",
            "page_number": "p. 89"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Bernard-Maitre, Henri. “Les Tapisseries Chinoises De François Boucher À Pékin.” <em>Bulletin De La Société De L'histoire De L'art Français / Société De L'histoire De L'art Français</em> (1951) pp. 9–10.",
            "page_number": "pp. 9–10"
        },
        {
            "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. 318",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n62"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Milliken, William Mathewson. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Collections</em>. [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1960.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 114",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/Milliken/page/n243/mode/2up"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hôtel de Ville (Beauvais, France). <em>Trois siècles de tapisseries de Beauvais: exposition organisée a l'occasion du tricentenaire de la fondation de la manufacture royale de tapisseries : Hôtel de Ville, Beauvais, 19 juin-30 septembre 1964</em>. [Beauvais]: [publisher not identified], 1964.",
            "page_number": "no. 24"
        },
        {
            "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. 135",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n159"
        },
        {
            "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. 135",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n159"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Jarry, Madeleine. “Wealth of Boucher Tapestries in American Museums.” <em>Magazine Antiques</em> 102 (August 1972).",
            "page_number": "pp. 222–231",
            "url": "http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=asu&AN=513430209&site=ehost-live"
        },
        {
            "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. 178",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n198"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Jarry, Madeleine. <em>China und Europa: Der Einfluss Chinas auf die Angewandten Künste Europas</em>. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1981.",
            "page_number": "p. 28"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Jarry, Madeleine. \"The Wealth of Boucher Tapestries in American Museums.\" <em>Antiques (</em>1972).",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 28"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Bertrand, Pascal-François. 1990. \"La seconde \"Tenture Chinoise\" tissée à Beauvais et Aubusson: relations entre Oudry, Boucher et Dumons\". <em>Gazette Des Beaux-Arts / Fondée Par Charles Blanc</em>. 6: 173–184.",
            "page_number": "pp. 173–184"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Turner, Evan H. <em>Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.",
            "page_number": "p. 95"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Rado, Mei Mei. “Qing Imperial Encounters with European Tapestries: The ‘Tenture Chinoise’ and Beyond.” In <em>Arachné / Textes Rassemblés Et Édités </em>Pascal-François Bertrand and Audrey Nassieu Maupas, editors. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2017.",
            "page_number": "pp. 119–135, footnote 83"
        }
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