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{
    "localId": "111798",
    "label": "Candle Stand",
    "core": "obj",
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}

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    "id": "111798",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Candle Stand",
    "description": "This magnificent candle or lamp stand consists of a shallow dish and a cylindrical holder, below which is a columnar support embellished with palmette designs and two entwined dragons atop a lotus blossom pedestal. The creamy white stoneware is covered with a finely crackled clear glaze that shows a slight yellow-green tinge where it is thick. The search for a white clay body represented a technical advancement of the kilns in northern China, anticipating the development of the true high-quality white porcelains during the late Tang period.",
    "date": "600s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.322",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60758249"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.322/1930.322_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.322/1930.322_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.322/1930.322_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 29.8 cm (11 3/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Sui dynasty (581-618) to early Tang dynasty (618-907)"
    ],
    "accession": "1930.322"
}

{
    "tec": "white stoneware with modeled and applied decoration",
    "tombstone": "Candle Stand, 600s. China, Sui dynasty (581-618) to early Tang dynasty (618-907). White stoneware with modeled and applied decoration; overall: 29.8 cm (11 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund, 1930.322",
    "collection": "China - Sui Dynasty",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 830",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n147"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 251",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n275"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 251",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n275"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 331",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n351"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Neils, Jenifer. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: no. 93, p. 88"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Wilson, J. Keith. \"Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 77, no. 8 (October 1990): 286–323.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: cat. no. 12, p. 315",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161297"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Kaikodo journal</em>. Vol. V, Autumn 1997.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 360"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 102"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.322",
    "creditline": "Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-17 11:19:43.503000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.322/1930.322_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 111798,
    "dept": "Chinese Art",
    "coll": "China - Sui Dynasty",
    "med": "white stoneware with modeled and applied decoration",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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