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    "localId": "140288",
    "label": "Dish with Figures in a Chinese Garden",
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    "id": "140288",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Dish with Figures in a Chinese Garden",
    "description": "This dish is inscribed with a poem from <em>The Gateless Gate</em>, a text compiled by Chinese Chan (Zen) master Wumen Huikai (1183–1260). The verse reads, “I always remember the spring in Jiangnan. Where the partridges sing; how fragrant the countless flowers!”",
    "date": "1700s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.257",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "height: 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in.); Diameter: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)"
    ],
    "accession": "1964.257"
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    "tec": "Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze color enamel and gold, with iron oxide rim (Arita ware)",
    "tombstone": "Dish with Figures in a Chinese Garden (唐庭人物図皿), 1700s. Japan, Edo period (1615–1868). Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze color enamel and gold, with iron oxide rim (Arita ware); height: 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in.); diameter: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection, 1964.257",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "唐庭人物図皿",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "長憶湖江南三月裏、鷓鴣啼処百花香",
            "inscription_translation": "I always remember the spring (latter part of the third month) in Jiangnan. Where the partridges sing; how fragrant the countless flowers!",
            "inscription_remark": "The poem is from The Gateless Gate (Wuwen kuan in Chinese and Mumonkan in Japanese), a text compiled by the Chinese Chan (Zen) master Wumen Huihai (1183–1260).",
            "sortorder": 1
        },
        {
            "inscription": "大明嘉靖年製",
            "inscription_translation": "Apocryphal inscription in the footring reading \"Da Ming Jiajing nianzhi\" (Made in the Great Ming dynasty, Jiajing reign, 1522–66)",
            "sortorder": 2
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland, Richard S. <em>200 Years of Japanese Porcelain; [Exhibition]</em>. St. Louis: City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1970.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 158, pl. 49"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 111, p. 80"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. <em>The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 23, no. 12"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.257",
    "creditline": "Severance and Greta Millikin Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:12:03.959000",
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    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze color enamel and gold, with iron oxide rim (Arita ware)",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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