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    "localId": "98624",
    "label": "Bottle (Schraubflasche)",
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    "id": "98624",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Bottle (Schraubflasche)",
    "description": "Bottles or jars (<em>kruken</em>) of this type of six-sided form are most often associated with the ceramic tradition found in Kreussen (now Creussen) in the Bavarian region of Germany during the mid to late 1600s. With a threaded neck fitted with a pewter screw top and ring, they were ideal vessels for medicinal liquids as they could be easily connected to a belt for transport to the patient. Applied decoration depicting the twelve apostles, as on this example, allude to the spiritual nature of healing.",
    "date": "c. 1660–80",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.327",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.327/1918.327_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 34.3 cm (13 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "German, Bavaria, Kreussen"
    ],
    "accession": "1918.327"
}

{
    "tec": "salt-glazed stoneware, applied and impressed decoration, pewter",
    "tombstone": "Bottle (Schraubflasche), c. 1660–80. German, Bavaria, Kreussen. Salt-glazed stoneware, applied and impressed decoration, pewter; overall: 34.3 cm (13 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Charles G. King Jr., 1918.327",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "didYouKnow": "The applied decoration on this bottle depicts the twelve apostles.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "\"Accessions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 5, no. 8/9 (1918): 82-85.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 82",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136230"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.327",
    "creditline": "Gift of Charles G. King Jr.",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:19:15.959000",
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    "sourceId": 98624,
    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
    "coll": "Decorative Arts",
    "med": "salt-glazed stoneware, applied and impressed decoration, pewter",
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    "image_url": null
}

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