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    "localId": "331583",
    "label": "General Guo Ziyi’s Birthday Banquet",
    "core": "obj",
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}

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    "id": "331583",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "General Guo Ziyi’s Birthday Banquet",
    "description": "The subject of this folding screen is a banquet in honor of Guo Ziyi (697–781), who is considered one of the greatest generals in Chinese history. He had a long and successful military career as well as a blissful family life. Thus, his image surrounded by his numerous family members symbolize the paragon of success and happiness. Using a wide spectrum of colorful silk threads, the artist colorfully depicts Guo enjoying his full-fledged retirement life.",
    "date": "early or mid-1800s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.87",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q117237389"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.87/2020.87_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.87/2020.87_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.87/2020.87_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Painting: 60.9 x 30 cm (24 x 11 13/16 in.); Overall framed: 195.2 x 332.4 cm (76 7/8 x 130 7/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)"
    ],
    "accession": "2020.87"
}

{
    "tec": "Eight-panel folding screen, embroidery on silk",
    "tombstone": "General Guo Ziyi’s Birthday Banquet (곽분양행락도[郭汾陽行樂圖]), early or mid-1800s. Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910). Eight-panel folding screen, embroidery on silk; painting: 60.9 x 30 cm (24 x 11 13/16 in.); overall framed: 195.2 x 332.4 cm (76 7/8 x 130 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, gift of the honorable Joseph P. Carroll, KM, and Roberta Carroll, M.D., in recognition of the contribution of Marjorie Williams to the development of The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2020.87",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "곽분양행락도[郭汾陽行樂圖]",
    "collection": "ASIAN - Folding screen",
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "6.2019"
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "This folding screen is highly likely to have been created by an amateur woman embroiderer.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Sotheby's, New York. <em>Japanese and Korean Works of Art</em>. 21 September 2000. Lot 442."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Kim, Hong-nam. \"A Study of Painting of Guo Fenyang’s Enjoyment-of-Life in Korea [한국 〈郭汾陽行樂圖〉 연구].\" <em>Misulsa nondan</em> (2012): 67–104.",
            "url": "http://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE01909571"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Beyond Folding Screens</em> [조선, 병풍의 나라]. Seoul: Amorepacific Museum of Art, 2018."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Ch'a, Mi-rae, Kwi-suk An, Cleveland Museum of Art, and 국외소재문화재재단. <em>The Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Edited by An Min-hŭi. First edition, English ed. Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Series, 16. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 352–353, no. 005"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.87",
    "creditline": "gift of the honorable Joseph P. Carroll, KM, and Roberta Carroll, M.D., in recognition of the contribution of Marjorie Williams to the development of The Cleveland Museum of Art",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:56:47.438000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.87/2020.87_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 331583,
    "dept": "Korean Art",
    "coll": "ASIAN - Folding screen",
    "med": "Eight-panel folding screen, embroidery on silk",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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