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    "localId": "111788",
    "label": "Dish with Dragons, Pomegranates, and Peaches",
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    "id": "111788",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Dish with Dragons, Pomegranates, and Peaches",
    "description": "Various techniques are applied to the decoration of susancai or \"plain three-color\" ware. The hidden dragons are incised, over which are painted decoration of fruit and flower sprays outlined with black pigment and colored with yellow, green, turquoise, and purplish brown enamels. The ground is filled with ivory enamel over unglazed clay.",
    "date": "1662–1722",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.313",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.313/1930.313_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 24.8 cm (9 3/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Kangxi mark and period (1662–1722)"
    ],
    "accession": "1930.313"
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    "tec": "Porcelain with incised and enamel decoration, susancai ware",
    "tombstone": "Dish with Dragons, Pomegranates, and Peaches, 1662–1722. China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Kangxi mark and period (1662–1722). Porcelain with incised and enamel decoration, susancai ware; diameter: 24.8 cm (9 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund, 1930.313",
    "collection": "China - Qing Dynasty",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "大清康熙年制",
            "inscription_translation": "Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi (Made in the Qing dynasty, Kangxi reign)"
        },
        {
            "inscription": "Round sticker on the base: \"Bluett & Sons, London\"",
            "sortorder": 2
        },
        {
            "inscription": "torn, formerly rectangular red sticker on base: \"C.M.A.\"",
            "sortorder": 3
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "There is an imperial ware mark on the base in double blue circles.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Hollis, Howard C. “Four Chinese Porcelains.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 22, no. 1, 1935, pp. 4–6.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced:  pp. 4-6",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137666"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:55:09.967000",
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    "sourceId": 111788,
    "dept": "Chinese Art",
    "coll": "China - Qing Dynasty",
    "med": "Porcelain with incised and enamel decoration, susancai ware",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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