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{
    "localId": "98755",
    "label": "Bottle",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "98755",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Bottle",
    "description": "As early as the seventh century, the practice of drinking tea and wine became an important part of elite culture in Korea. Elites of the Goryeo period commissioned a variety of types of utensils and vessels including this wine bottle, not only to make their drinking experience more exciting.",
    "date": "1100s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.436",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79485551"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.436/1918.436_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 27.7 cm (10 7/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)"
    ],
    "accession": "1918.436"
}

{
    "tec": "celadon",
    "tombstone": "Bottle (청자병 [靑磁甁]), 1100s. Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392). Celadon; overall: 27.7 cm (10 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John L. Severance, 1918.436",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "청자병 [靑磁甁]",
    "collection": "Korean Art",
    "didYouKnow": "The distinctive bluish and greenish glaze of Goryeo celadons, shown in this bottle, is the result of distinctive small and long Korean kilns, which maintained a low oxygen saturation with a high level of carbon dioxide.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Warner, Lorraine D'O. \"Korean Grave Pottery of the Korai Dynasty.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 6, no. 3 (1919): 46-58.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 57 fig, 1; Mentioned: p. 46",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136270"
        },
        {
            "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": "<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": "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. 52"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.436",
    "creditline": "Gift of John L. Severance",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:20:05.609000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.436/1918.436_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 98755,
    "dept": "Korean Art",
    "coll": "Korean Art",
    "med": "celadon",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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