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    "localId": "98764",
    "label": "Bowl with Fish and Waves in Relief",
    "core": "obj",
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}

{
    "id": "98764",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Bowl with Fish and Waves in Relief",
    "description": "As early as the seventh century, the practice of drinking tea and wine became an important part of elite leisure culture in Korea. A wide bowl like this example was especially suitable for drinking powdered tea shaved from a compressed tea cake, the most commonly enjoyed type during the Goryeo period. The image of fish swimming waves expressed in low relief on the inner wall of this tea bowl may have made the moment of drinking tea much enjoyable.",
    "date": "1100s-1200s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.445",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 6.3 cm (2 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)"
    ],
    "accession": "1918.445"
}

{
    "tec": "celadon",
    "tombstone": "Bowl with Fish and Waves in Relief (청자 양각 파도·물고기무늬 사발 [靑磁陽刻波漁文碗]), 1100s-1200s. Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392). Celadon; overall: 6.3 cm (2 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John L. Severance, 1918.445",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "청자 양각 파도·물고기무늬 사발 [靑磁陽刻波漁文碗]",
    "collection": "Korean Art",
    "didYouKnow": "This tea bowl was part of the gifts donated by John L. Severance (1863–1936). He and his father Louis H. Severance (1838–1913) collected Korean ceramics of the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392) from a number of pioneering medical missionaries as a way to foster their activities in Korea, and later donated them to the Cleveland Museum of Art.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "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": "<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."
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.445",
    "creditline": "Gift of John L. Severance",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:20:07.495000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.445/1918.445_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 98764,
    "dept": "Korean Art",
    "coll": "Korean Art",
    "med": "celadon",
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    "image_url": null
}

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