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    "localId": "98806",
    "label": "Bowl with Incised Parrot Design",
    "core": "obj",
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}

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    "id": "98806",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Bowl with Incised Parrot Design",
    "description": "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 flying parrots incised on the inner wall of this tea bowl must have made the moment of drinking tea more enjoyable and even magical.",
    "date": "1100s–1200s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.482",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79485641"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.482/1918.482_web.jpg",
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.482/1918.482_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter of mouth: 10.9 cm (4 5/16 in.); Overall: 6 cm (2 3/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)"
    ],
    "accession": "1918.482"
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{
    "tec": "celadon ware with incised decoration",
    "tombstone": "Bowl with Incised Parrot Design (청자 음각 앵무새 무늬 사발 [靑磁陰刻鸚鵡文碗]), 1100s–1200s. Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392). Celadon ware with incised decoration; diameter of mouth: 10.9 cm (4 5/16 in.); overall: 6 cm (2 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John L. Severance, 1918.482",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "청자 음각 앵무새 무늬 사발 [靑磁陰刻鸚鵡文碗]",
    "collection": "Korean Art",
    "didYouKnow": "As early as the seventh century, the practice of drinking tea and wine became an important part of elite leisure culture in Korea.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "<em>Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392</em>. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. <em>The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 71–72, no. 64"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Korean Celadons, the Best under Heaven </em>[천하제일 비색청자]. Seoul : National Museum of Korea, 2012."
        },
        {
            "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. 69"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.482",
    "creditline": "Gift of John L. Severance",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:20:15.991000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.482/1918.482_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 98806,
    "dept": "Korean Art",
    "coll": "Korean Art",
    "med": "celadon ware with incised decoration",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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