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    "localId": "107407",
    "label": "Relief with Dragon from a Funerary Stove Model",
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    "id": "107407",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Relief with Dragon from a Funerary Stove Model",
    "description": "Han dynasty tombs were often furnished with grave goods to provide the deceased with items for the afterlife. This panel with a dragon was part of a miniature pottery stove to be placed in a burial chamber. The dragon is an auspicious creature and an animal of the cardinal directions that protects the east.",
    "date": "202 BCE–220 CE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1925.138",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 10 x 27.7 x 1.4 cm (3 15/16 x 10 7/8 x 9/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, from a tomb in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, Han dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE)"
    ],
    "accession": "1925.138"
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    "tec": "earthenware with relief decoration",
    "tombstone": "Relief with Dragon from a Funerary Stove Model (陶炉上的 龍紋), 202 BCE–220 CE. China, from a tomb in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, Han dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE). Earthenware with relief decoration; overall: 10 x 27.7 x 1.4 cm (3 15/16 x 10 7/8 x 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund, 1925.138",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "陶炉上的 龍紋",
    "collection": "China - Han Dynasty",
    "didYouKnow": "Han dynasty tombs were often furnished with grave goods to provide the deceased with items for the afterlife.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Whiting, Frederic Allen. “The Bequests of Mary Warden Harkness: A Tribute and an Accounting.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 15, no. 2, 1928, pp. 43–50.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 50",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137106"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cox, Warren E. <em>The Book of Pottery and Porcelain</em>. New York: L. Lee and Shepard Co.; distributed by Crown Publishers, 1944.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: vol. I, pl. 19"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Trubner, Henry. <em>Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period Through Ch'ien Lung; A Loan Exhibition from Collections in America and Japan. March 14 to April 27, 1952</em>. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 1952.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 55, fig. 42:5"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Wilson, J. Keith. “Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 77, no. 8, 1990, pp. 286–323.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 301, cat. no. 25, fig. 19",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161297"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1925.138",
    "creditline": "Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:46:28.197000",
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    "sourceId": 107407,
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    "coll": "China - Han Dynasty",
    "med": "earthenware with relief decoration",
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