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    "localId": "445185",
    "label": "Boat-Shaped Bowl with Plovers",
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    "id": "445185",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Boat-Shaped Bowl with Plovers",
    "description": "Overglaze color enamels create a seascape made complete by the bowl’s boat shape. The bowl’s form inserts a human presence into the scene, much in the way <em>rusu mōyō</em> is used in paintings to suggest people just out of view. Rusu mōyō is a pictorial device by which the presence of someone physically absent from an image is conveyed through the depiction of clothing or other items. <br><br>The inside of the bowl has a scene of plovers flying through the sky over a profusion of seaweed in sand below. In addition to the black, gray, and green of the overglaze elements, warm pink banding and mottling in the clay come through the glaze and are remarkably effective at suggesting the seashore.",
    "date": "1893–97",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.183",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q117706831"
    ],
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    "genreSpecific": [
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    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.183/2022.183_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "height: 5 cm (1 15/16 in.); length: 17 cm (6 11/16 in.); depth: 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)"
    ],
    "accession": "2022.183"
}

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    "tec": "Stoneware with crackled glaze and overglaze color enamel and gold",
    "tombstone": "Boat-Shaped Bowl with Plovers, 1893–97. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Stoneware with crackled glaze and overglaze color enamel and gold; height: 5 cm (1 15/16 in.); length: 17 cm (6 11/16 in.); depth: 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.183",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "didYouKnow": "On the outside of the bowl, on each side, birds fly about grasses in search of a meal.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Maezaki, Shinya and Sinéad Vilbar. <em>Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 39, p. 112"
        }
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    "creditline": "Gift of James and Christine Heusinger",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 09:01:18.383000",
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    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Stoneware with crackled glaze and overglaze color enamel and gold",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male",
        "Asian (from 1900 to present)"
    ],
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