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{
    "localId": "125872",
    "label": "Vase with Peony Decoration",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

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    "id": "125872",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Vase with Peony Decoration",
    "date": "1000s-1100s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.119",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.119/1948.119_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.119/1948.119_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.119/1948.119_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 19.7 cm (7 3/4 in.); Overall: 30.2 cm (11 7/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)"
    ],
    "accession": "1948.119"
}

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    "tec": "Gray stoneware with underglaze slip decoration, Cizhou ware",
    "tombstone": "Vase with Peony Decoration, 1000s-1100s. China, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). Gray stoneware with underglaze slip decoration, Cizhou ware; diameter: 19.7 cm (7 3/4 in.); overall: 30.2 cm (11 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of William G. Mather, 1948.119",
    "collection": "China - Song Dynasty",
    "didYouKnow": "The thick foot rim is unglazed, while the shallow recessed flat base is covered with white slip and chance accumulations of underglaze pigment.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Hollis, Howard C. “A Sung Dynasty Vase.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 35, no. 10, 1948, pp. 219–220.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 219-220; Reproduced: cover",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25141513"
        },
        {
            "citation": "“Part II. Annual Report Issue for the Year 1948.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 36, no. 6, 1949, pp. 111–142.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 116-117",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25141566"
        },
        {
            "citation": "“Far Eastern Art: Important Museum Accessions in 1948.” <em>The Far Eastern Quarterly</em>, vol. 9, no. 1, 1949, pp. 66–74.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 68",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/2049126"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period Through Ch'ien Lung. A Loan Exhibition from Collections in America and Japan</em>. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1952.",
            "page_number": "no. 215"
        },
        {
            "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. 837",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n148"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Mayuyama, Junkichi 繭山順吉. <em>Chinese Ceramics in the West: Compendium of Chinese Ceramic Masterpieces in European and American Collection </em>[欧米蒐蔵中国陶磁図錄]. Tokyo: Mayuyama &amp; Co, 1960.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: pl. 35"
        },
        {
            "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. 255",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n279"
        },
        {
            "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. 255",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n279"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.119",
    "creditline": "Gift of William G. Mather",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:30:48.837000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.119/1948.119_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 125872,
    "dept": "Chinese Art",
    "coll": "China - Song Dynasty",
    "med": "Gray stoneware with underglaze slip decoration, Cizhou ware",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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