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    "localId": "123679",
    "label": "Pair of Bottle Coolers (Seaux à rafraîchir)",
    "core": "obj",
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}

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    "id": "123679",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Pair of Bottle Coolers (Seaux à rafraîchir)",
    "description": "The Saint-Cloud Porcelain Factory was known for its innovation in color. Shades of green and blue are used to paint the main decoration of these bottle coolers, a palette typical of the Chinese porcelain famille verte. The alternating red and gold outlines of the figures and objects is relatively rare and generally only seen on two shapes produced at Saint-Cloud, bottle coolers and cream pots.",
    "date": "c. 1730",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.226",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60757337"
    ],
    "creators": [
        11810
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.226/1944.226_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.226/1944.226_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.226/1944.226_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 11 x 11.5 cm (4 5/16 x 4 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France, Saint Cloud, 18th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1944.226"
}

{
    "tec": "soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration",
    "tombstone": "Pair of Bottle Coolers (Seaux à rafraîchir), c. 1730. Saint Cloud Porcelain Factory (French). Soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration; diameter: 11 x 11.5 cm (4 5/16 x 4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1944.226",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "didYouKnow": "These bottle coolers would have been used to cool glasses or small bottles.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Morgan, J. Pierpont, and Xavier Roger Marie Chavagnac. <em>Catalogue des porcelaines françaises de m. J. Pierpont Morgan</em>. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1910.",
            "page_number": "p. 4, pl. 1"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Foote, Helen S. \"Early French and German Porcelain Formerly in the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>31 (November 1944).",
            "page_number": "p. 160-61, 166"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Savage, George. <em>Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Porcelain</em>. New York: Macmillan, 1961.",
            "page_number": "p. 340, 342"
        },
        {
            "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. 134",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n158"
        },
        {
            "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. 134",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n158"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Jedding, Hermann. <em>Europäisches Porzellan</em>. Vol. 3. München: Keysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1971.",
            "page_number": "p. 266"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Le Duc, Genevieve, and Regine de Plinval de Guillebon. \"Saint-Cloud autour de 1700.\" <em>L'Estampille</em> 265 (January 1993): 74-82.",
            "page_number": "p. 82"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.226",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:22:08.129000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.226/1944.226_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 123679,
    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
    "coll": "Decorative Arts",
    "med": "soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration",
    "creatorTags": [
        "gender unknown"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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