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    "localId": "154203",
    "label": "Birds in a Tree",
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    "id": "154203",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Birds in a Tree",
    "description": "This scene of two Chinese pheasants with a flowering plum tree (a sign of the arrival of spring in Japan) is not painted. All the lines and surfaces are created by colored threads carefully stitched together into the silk. Consequently, the surface appears quite different from paintings on paper.",
    "date": "c. 1700–1868",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.246",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 169.5 x 47 cm (66 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)"
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    "accession": "1988.246"
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    "tec": "hanging scroll; silk gauze brocaded with gold and silk",
    "tombstone": "Birds in a Tree, c. 1700–1868. Japan, Edo period (1615–1868). Hanging scroll; silk gauze brocaded with gold and silk; overall: 169.5 x 47 cm (66 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Donald J. Wineman in memory of his wife, Susan, 1988.246",
    "collection": "ASIAN - Hanging scroll",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "\"The Year in Review for 1988.\"€ <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 76, no. 2, 1989, pp. 30-75.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 47 and 74, no. 208",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160061"
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    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.246",
    "creditline": "Gift of Donald J. Wineman in memory of his wife, Susan",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:58:21.863000",
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    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "ASIAN - Hanging scroll",
    "med": "hanging scroll; silk gauze brocaded with gold and silk",
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