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    "localId": "97695",
    "label": "Spoon",
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    "id": "97695",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Spoon",
    "description": "Celadons, spoons, seals, and bronze mirrors were among the most common burial objects of the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), placed in tombs to honor and comfort the deceased. This spoon, with its gracefully curved bowl and handle that bends downward to each side, ending in a scepter-shaped finial, is distinctive in design and was likely used in Buddhist rituals, rather than as an everyday utensil.",
    "date": "918–1392",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.338",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79482324"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metalwork"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 31 cm (12 3/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)"
    ],
    "accession": "1917.338"
}

{
    "tec": "silver bronze",
    "tombstone": "Spoon (보주형 은동 수저 [寶珠形銀銅匙]), 918–1392. Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392). Silver bronze; overall: 31 cm (12 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, General Income Fund, 1917.338",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "보주형 은동 수저 [寶珠形銀銅匙]",
    "collection": "Korean Art",
    "didYouKnow": "Scholars have proposed that toward the end of the 1300s, Koreans enjoyed meat-based soups more than any other dishes, explaining why spoons became common household items as well as burial goods.",
    "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. 96"
        },
        {
            "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 and reproduced: p. 284, fig. 14"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.338",
    "creditline": "General Income Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-18 15:02:14.436000",
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    "sourceId": 97695,
    "dept": "Korean Art",
    "coll": "Korean Art",
    "med": "silver bronze",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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