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    "localId": "97973",
    "label": "Figure of Spring from the Four Seasons",
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    "id": "97973",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Figure of Spring from the Four Seasons",
    "description": "The modern notion of childhood as a time of innocence and simplicity emerged during the second half of the eighteenth century. This understanding of adolescence led to numerous depictions of children as personifications of the four seasons. Here spring is portrayed as a young girl adorning her hair with flowers. The flowers filling her basket and growing in the grass around her signal spring’s arrival.",
    "date": "c. 1775",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.611.2",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 27 x 14.5 x 9.4 cm (10 5/8 x 5 11/16 x 3 11/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "England, Bristol"
    ],
    "accession": "1917.611.2"
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    "tec": "hard-paste porcelain",
    "tombstone": "Figure of Spring from the Four Seasons, c. 1775. Bristol Porcelain Factory (British, 1770–81). Hard-paste porcelain; overall: 27 x 14.5 x 9.4 cm (10 5/8 x 5 11/16 x 3 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mary Warden Harkness, 1917.611.2",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "1917.612"
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Allegorical figures most often decorated a table during the dessert course, providing amusing subjects for conversation.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 11",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n13"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 10",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n14"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"European Porcelains Bequeathed by Mary Warden Harkness.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>15, no. 2 part II (February 1928): 57-59",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 58",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137108"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.<br>Incorrectly published as <em>Spring </em>(1917.611.1)",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 267",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n55"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.611.2",
    "creditline": "Bequest of Mary Warden Harkness",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:17:18.669000",
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    "med": "hard-paste porcelain",
    "creatorTags": [
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