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    "localId": "98736",
    "label": "Box and Cover with Inlaid Chrysanthemum Design",
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}

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    "id": "98736",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Box and Cover with Inlaid Chrysanthemum Design",
    "description": "Celadons, spoons, seals, and bronze mirrors were the most common burial objects in tombs during the Goryeo period (918-1392). Once used to contain color powder, rouge and eyebrow gel for makeup, this small container was one of the standard goods that furnished elites' tombs. Goryeo-period women and men used the grain powder of rice or millet for whitening their skin, safflower extract for rouge, and plant ash or soot for eyebrow gel. Yet, natural-looking make-up seems to have been the most favorable one in Korea according to the travelogue by Xu Jing (1091-1153), the Chinese diplomat who visited Korea in 1123.",
    "date": "1200s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.423",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79485484"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.423/1918.423_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.423/1918.423_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.423/1918.423_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 9.1 cm (3 9/16 in.); Overall: 4.2 cm (1 5/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)"
    ],
    "accession": "1918.423"
}

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    "tec": "celadon",
    "tombstone": "Box and Cover with Inlaid Chrysanthemum Design (청자 상감 국화무늬 합 [靑磁象嵌菊文母子盒]), 1200s. Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392). Celadon; diameter: 9.1 cm (3 9/16 in.); overall: 4.2 cm (1 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John L. Severance, 1918.423",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "청자 상감 국화무늬 합 [靑磁象嵌菊文母子盒]",
    "collection": "Korean Art",
    "didYouKnow": "This ceramic container was used to store incense or cosmetics.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Young-hee. \"The Study on Techniques and their Interrelations among Craft Arts of the Goryeo Dynasty [고려시대 공예기법 연구 상호관련성을 중심으로].\" <em>Misulsa hakbo</em> 22 (2004): 133-170.",
            "url": "https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE00557781"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>A Chinese traveler in medieval Korea : Xu Jing's illustrated account of the Xuanhe embassy to Koryo</em>. Translated by Sem Vermeersch. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2016."
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392</em>. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003."
        },
        {
            "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. 76"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.423",
    "creditline": "Gift of John L. Severance",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:20:02.660000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.423/1918.423_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 98736,
    "dept": "Korean Art",
    "coll": "Korean Art",
    "med": "celadon",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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