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    "localId": "97688",
    "label": "Spoon",
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    "id": "97688",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Spoon",
    "description": "Celadons, spoons, seals, and bronze mirrors were the most common burial objects in tombs during the Goryeo period (918–1392). Furnishing tombs with an elaborate assemblage of objects was believed to honor and comfort the newly dead. Generally, Goryeo tombs were left untouched until the late 19th century. During the colonial period (1910–45), however, Japanese archaeologists hastily excavated the tombs located in Kaeseong, the former capital of the Goryeo period.",
    "date": "918–1392",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.331",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79482305"
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        "Metalwork"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.331/1917.331_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 29.7 cm (11 11/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)"
    ],
    "accession": "1917.331"
}

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    "tombstone": "Spoon (청동 수저 [靑銅匙]), 918–1392. Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392). overall: 29.7 cm (11 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, General Income Fund, 1917.331",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "청동 수저 [靑銅匙]",
    "collection": "Korean Art",
    "didYouKnow": "Bronze spoons are the most common burial item. The shape of the spoon suggests it was used for tea.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "L. W. \"Korean Bronze Spoons of the Korai Dynasty.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 4, no. 6 (1917): 99-101.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: Front Matter; Mentioned: pp. 99-101",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136106"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392</em>. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Horlyck Charlotte. \"The Eternal Link: Grave Goods of the Koryŏ Kingdom (918-1392 CE).\"<em> Ars Orientalis</em>, no. 44 (2014): 156-79.",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/43489802"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Yun, Seong-jae. “The Special Meanings of Spoons and Chopsticks in the Goryeo Dynasty [고려시대 분묘출토 청동수저].” <em>Yeoksa wa silhak</em> (2015): 51-68.",
            "url": "https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE06339542"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Bronze in Life and Art</em> [삶과 예술 속. 청동 靑銅 이야기] National Cheongju Museum (2016)."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Jeong, Eui-do. Changes of Spoons during the Late Goryeo Period [고려후기 숟가락의 변화].” <em>Hanguk jungse gogohak</em> (2017): 139-157.",
            "url": "https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE07262104"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Goryeo: The Glory of Korea </em>[대고려, 그 찬란한 도전]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 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: P. 97"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Ahn, Kuisook. \"The Significance of the Bronze Spoons in the Cleveland Museum of Art.\" In <em>The Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Ch'a, Mi-rae, Kwi-suk An, Cleveland Museum of Art, 국외소재문화재재단, and An Min-hŭi, ed., 274-289. First edition, English ed. Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Series, 16. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 285-287"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.331",
    "creditline": "General Income Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:15:53.791000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.331/1917.331_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 97688,
    "dept": "Korean Art",
    "coll": "Korean Art",
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}

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