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    "localId": "170280",
    "label": "Leather Bag-Shaped Flask with Cover",
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    "id": "170280",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Leather Bag-Shaped Flask with Cover",
    "description": "Flasks like these derive their shapes from leather bags; even the edges are finely rouletted to resemble the seams of sewn leather. These were used by the nomadic Khitan people who established the Liao kingdom in Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, and North China. Such wares represented the Liao adoption of the Tang Chinese ceramic tradition, and yet they expressed ethnic identity and new innovations resulted from the cultural borrowing.",
    "date": "916–1125",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2012.448.1",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "wikidata": [
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 24.5 x 16.5 x 16 cm (9 5/8 x 6 1/2 x 6 5/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Northeast China, Liao dynasty (916-1125)"
    ],
    "accession": "2012.448.1"
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    "tec": "earthenware with green glaze",
    "tombstone": "Leather Bag-Shaped Flask with Cover, 916–1125. Northeast China, Liao dynasty (916-1125). Earthenware with green glaze; overall: 24.5 x 16.5 x 16 cm (9 5/8 x 6 1/2 x 6 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Donna and James Reid, 2012.448.1",
    "collection": "Chinese Art",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Uragami, Mitsuru 浦上満. <em>Ryō no tōji </em>[遼の陶磁 = Liao Ceramics]. Tōkyō: Uragami Sōkyūdō, 2005.",
            "page_number": "pp. 8–9"
        },
        {
            "citation": "“Art of Asia Acquired by North American Museums, 2011-2012.” <em>Archives of Asian Art</em>, vol. 63, no. 2, 2013, pp. 215–276.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 16, p. 227",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/43676727"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Gift of Donna and James Reid",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:45:01.983000",
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    "dept": "Chinese Art",
    "coll": "Chinese Art",
    "med": "earthenware with green glaze",
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