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    "localId": "140168",
    "label": "Meiping  Vase with Cloud Collars and Peony Sprays",
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    "id": "140168",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Meiping  Vase with Cloud Collars and Peony Sprays",
    "description": "This beautiful vase, called a meiping, is a testimony to the extremely high standards demanded for imperial white porcelain of the Yongle period. It is exquisitely potted and subtly decorated with \"hidden decoration\" (anhua) incised into the body. The clear glaze over the white body has a luster and purity; the white color radiates with a soft glow like melting snow, described by the Chinese connoisseurs as tianbai, or \"sweetwhite.\" Tianbai wares were produced for use in imperial offerings and have always been considered a great achievement of the Yongle period.",
    "date": "1403–24",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.167",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 20.3 cm (8 in.); Overall: 32.1 cm (12 5/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen kilns, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Yongle period (1403-1424)"
    ],
    "accession": "1964.167"
}

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    "tec": "porcelain with incised decoration and white glaze",
    "tombstone": "Meiping  Vase with Cloud Collars and Peony Sprays, 1403–24. China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen kilns, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Yongle period (1403-1424). Porcelain with incised decoration and white glaze; diameter: 20.3 cm (8 in.); overall: 32.1 cm (12 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection, 1964.167",
    "collection": "China - Ming Dynasty",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
            "page_number": "no. 122"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Sherman E. Lee. <em>The Colors of Ink: Chinese Paintings and Related Ceramics from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. [New York]: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1974.",
            "page_number": "no. 66"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. </em>Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990.",
            "page_number": "no. 43"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 101"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Giuffrida, Noelle. <em>Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America</em>. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 123, fig. 71"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.167",
    "creditline": "Severance and Greta Millikin Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:11:03.813000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.167/1964.167_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 140168,
    "dept": "Chinese Art",
    "coll": "China - Ming Dynasty",
    "med": "porcelain with incised decoration and white glaze",
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    "image_url": null
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