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    "localId": "97714",
    "label": "Cover for a Pitcher",
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}

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    "id": "97714",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Cover for a Pitcher",
    "description": "As early as the seventh century, the practice of drinking tea and wine became an important part of elite leisure culture in Korea. This lid once served as a lid for a tea pot.",
    "date": "1100s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.1090",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q116965151"
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter of lid: 4.2 cm (1 5/8 in.); height of lid: 2.1 cm (13/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)"
    ],
    "accession": "1917.109"
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    "tec": "celadon ware with inlaid white and black slip decoration",
    "tombstone": "Cover for a Pitcher, 1100s. Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392). Celadon ware with inlaid white and black slip decoration; diameter of lid: 4.2 cm (1 5/8 in.); height of lid: 2.1 cm (13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John L. Severance, 1917.1090",
    "collection": "Korean Art",
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "1917.357.b"
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "During the Goryeo period, a variety of types of tea ware were widely used. This lid once served as a lid of a teapot.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Kungnip Chungang Pangmulgwan (Korea), and Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. <em>5,000 Years of Korean Art. </em>San Francisco: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1979.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 104, no. 141"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392</em>. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Young-hee. \"The Study on the Craft technique of Koryo Dynasty-Centering on Interrelation [고려시대 공예기법 연구 상호관련성을 중심으로].\" <em>Misulsa hakbo</em> 22 (2004): 133-170.",
            "url": "https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE00557781&language=ko_KR"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Jang, Nam-won. \"The Tea and Celadons during the Goryeo Dynasty : Considering the Celadon Tea Utensils [고려시대 茶文化와 靑瓷].\" <em>Misulsa nondan</em> (2007): 129–162.",
            "url": "https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE01351978"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. <em>The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 56–57, no. 30"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Goryeo: The Glory of Korea </em>[대고려, 그 찬란한 도전]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2018."
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Sparkles of Jade: Goryeo Celadon</em> [高麗青磁 : ヒスイのきらめき]. Ōsaka: Ōsaka: Shiritsu Tōyō Tōji Bijutsukan, 2018."
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Seoul: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 23, fig. 4"
        },
        {
            "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, Englished. Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Series, 16. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 58–59, cat. no. 017"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.1090",
    "creditline": "Gift of John L. Severance",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:16:02.329000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.1090/1917.1090_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 97714,
    "dept": "Korean Art",
    "coll": "Korean Art",
    "med": "celadon ware with inlaid white and black slip decoration",
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}

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