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    "localId": "140294",
    "label": "Dish with Two Men Playing Go",
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    "id": "140294",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Dish with Two Men Playing Go",
    "description": "This modest serving dish is decorated with two figures playing chess, or <em>go </em>in Japanese. The green color is typical of <em>kutani</em> porcelain. This dish was produced for the export market after Japan replaced China as Europe’s primary source for export porcelain.",
    "date": "1700s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.260",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.260/1964.260_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 2.4 x 13.8 cm (15/16 x 5 7/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)"
    ],
    "accession": "1964.26"
}

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    "tec": "porcelain, molded, with overglaze color enamel (Hizen ware, Imari style)",
    "tombstone": "Dish with Two Men Playing Go, 1700s. Japan, Edo period (1615–1868). Porcelain, molded, with overglaze color enamel (Hizen ware, Imari style); overall: 2.4 x 13.8 cm (15/16 x 5 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection, 1964.260",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "citations": [
        {
            "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. 11"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.260",
    "creditline": "Severance and Greta Millikin Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:12:06.122000",
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    "sourceId": 140294,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
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    "med": "porcelain, molded, with overglaze color enamel (Hizen ware, Imari style)",
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}

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