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    "localId": "147013",
    "label": "Cylindrical Container with Cover (Lian)",
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    "id": "147013",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Cylindrical Container with Cover (Lian)",
    "description": "This magnificent gilded bronze vessel with openwork decoration shows all kinds of fabulous creatures, real and imaginary, chasing each other among swirling scrolls. There is an emphasis on the unbroken rhythms of movement, rather than the ferocity of animals in combat. Cylindrical bronze vessels in this shape, called <em>lian</em>, were often used as cosmetic boxes.",
    "date": "100 BCE–100 CE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.44.b",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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        "Metalwork"
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.44.b/1972.44.b_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.44.b/1972.44.b_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.); Overall: 17.2 cm (6 3/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Han dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE)"
    ],
    "accession": "1972.44.b"
}

{
    "tec": "gilt bronze with openwork and chased designs",
    "tombstone": "Cylindrical Container with Cover (Lian), 100 BCE–100 CE. China, Han dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE). Gilt bronze with openwork and chased designs; diameter: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.); overall: 17.2 cm (6 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1972.44.b",
    "collection": "China - Tang Dynasty",
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "1972.44"
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1972.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 60, no. 3, 1973, pp. 63–115.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 115, no. 309",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25093732"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 333",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n353"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.44.b",
    "creditline": "Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:32:21.628000",
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    "sourceId": 147013,
    "dept": "Chinese Art",
    "coll": "China - Tang Dynasty",
    "med": "gilt bronze with openwork and chased designs",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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