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    "localId": "154256",
    "label": "Vase",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "154256",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Vase",
    "description": "Located amid the vast “silk roads” trade network, medieval Tibet was a place of dynamic cultural exchange. This decanter is evidence of such interactions. The vessel is part of the tableware used to hold wine during feasts. Tibetan elites adopted the tradition of consuming wine at social gatherings from their Iranian (Persian) contemporaries, whose wine banquets were lavish affairs with plentiful food and drink.",
    "date": "c. late 600s–early 700s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.67.1",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79941063"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Silver"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.67.1/1988.67.1_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 22.9 cm (9 in.);",
    "cul": [
        "Central Asia (Sogdiana) or Tibet"
    ],
    "accession": "1988.67.1"
}

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    "tec": "silver with gilded foil",
    "tombstone": "Vase, c. late 600s–early 700s. Central Asia (Sogdiana) or Tibet. Silver with gilded foil; overall: 22.9 cm (9 in.); . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1988.67.1",
    "collection": "Tibetan Art",
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "1988.67"
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Lions were often seen as powerful protectors while phoenixes were associated with good fortune.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "“The Year in Review for 1988.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 76, no. 2 (February 1989): 30–75.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 231–233, p. 75; Reproduced: cat. no. 231–233, p. 51",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160061"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Czuma, Stan. \"Museum Acquisitions and Notes.\" <em>Bulletin of the Asia Institute</em> vol. 5 (1991), 190.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 190"
        },
        {
            "citation": "“Recent Acquisitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art II: Departments of Asian Art: Supplement.” <em>The Burlington Magazine</em> 133, no. 1059 (June 1991): 417–424.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 419, fig. VIII",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/884779"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Czuma, Stanislaw J. \"Some Tibetan and Tibet-Related Acquisitions of the Cleveland Museum of Art.\" <em>Oriental Art</em>, winter 1992/3, vol. 38, no. 4.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 231; Reproduced: p. 232."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Czuma, Stan. \"Tibetan Silver Vessels.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 4 (April 1993): 131–135.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 134; Mentioned: pp. 131–135",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161400"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Carter, Martha L. \"Three Silver Vessels from Tibet's Earliest Historical Era: A Preliminary Study.\" <em>Cleveland Studies in the History of Art </em>3 (1998) 22-47.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 22-31, figs. 1-9c",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/20079697"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Heller, Amy. <em>Tibetan Art: Tracing the Development of Spiritual Ideals and Art in Tibet, 600-2000 A.D</em>. Milano, Italy; Woodbridge, England: Jaca Book; Antique Collectors’ Club, 1999.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 8 and 11, pls. 3, 4, 13, and 14."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Christman, Bruce. \"Three Gilded Tibetan Vessels.\" In <em>Gilded Metals: History, Technology and Conservation</em>. Terry Drayman-Weisser, ed. London: Archetype Publications Ltd. in association with the American Institute of Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 2000.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 10.1, p. 169; fig. 10.3, p. 172"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"Silk Road Art and Archaeology.\" <em>Silk Road art and archaeology: journal of the Institute of Silk Road Studies, Kamakura</em>, vol. 9 (2003).",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 17, p. 224"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Huo, Wei. “A Study of Ancient Tibetan Gold and Silver Ware.” <em>Chinese Archaeology</em> 12, no. 1 (November 2012): 165–74. doi:10.1515/char-2012-0020."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Heller, Amy. “Tibetan Inscriptions on Ancient silver and gold Vessels and Artefacts.” <em>Journal of the International Association for Bon Research</em>, vol 1. (2013). Mentioned: footnote 38, p. 274; pp. 276–8. Reproduced: p. 277."
        },
        {
            "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. 216"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Kosmin, Paul. \"Banqueting on the Move.\" In <em>Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings</em>. Susanne Ebbinghaus, ed., 310-341. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Art Museums, 2018.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 338, p. 384, cat. no. 62"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Debreczeny, Karl. <em>Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism</em>. New York, NY: Rubin Museum of Art, 2019.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 3.5, pp. 8-9 and p. 76"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Pritzker, David Thomas and Wang Xudong 王旭东, editors. <em>Cultural Exchange along the Silk Road: Masterpieces of the Tubo Period (7th-9th Century) </em>= 丝绸之路上的文化交流 : 吐蕃时期艺术珍品. Beijing: 中国藏学出版社 [China Tibetology Publishing House], 2020.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 15, p. 31 (vase only)"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Heller, Amy. “Silver Jug: Ceremonial Banquet Vessels in Silver and Gold,” <em>Project Himalayan Art</em>, Rubin Museum of Art, 2023, https://rubinmuseum.org/projecthimalayanart/essays/silver-jug/.",
            "url": "https://rubinmuseum.org/projecthimalayanart/essays/silver-jug"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Heller, Amy. “Silver Jug: Ceremonial Banquet Vessels in Silver and Gold.” <em>Project Himalayan Art, </em>Rubin Museum of Art, 2023.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 5 and fig. 6 (cup only)",
            "url": "https://rubinmuseum.org/projecthimalayanart/essays/silver-jug/"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.67.1",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-18 21:45:30.314000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.67.1/1988.67.1_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 154256,
    "dept": "Indian and Southeast Asian Art",
    "coll": "Tibetan Art",
    "med": "silver with gilded foil",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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