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    "localId": "119659",
    "label": "Pillow",
    "core": "obj",
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    "id": "119659",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Pillow",
    "date": "1000s–1100s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.50",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80014797"
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    "genreSpecific": [
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 11.8 x 19.8 cm (4 5/8 x 7 13/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)"
    ],
    "accession": "1940.5"
}

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    "tec": "Buff stoneware with carved underglaze slip decoration, Cizhou ware",
    "tombstone": "Pillow, 1000s–1100s. China, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). Buff stoneware with carved underglaze slip decoration, Cizhou ware; overall: 11.8 x 19.8 cm (4 5/8 x 7 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund, 1940.50",
    "collection": "China - Song Dynasty",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "<em> American Magazine of Art</em> (April 1940), p. 212."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hollis, Howard. “Pottery of the Sung Dynasty.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 28, no. 8 (October 1941): 125–131.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 125–131",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140944"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Rakuji Hasebe, ed. \"Wares made by several kilns in North China of the Sung Dynasty,\" In<em>Toki Zenshu</em>, vol. 13, Heibonsha, Tokyo, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: pl. 45"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman Emery, and James Robinson. <em>The Colors of Ink: Chinese Paintings and Related Ceramics from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1974.",
            "page_number": "cat. no. 52, p. 131"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Mino, Yutaka, and Katherine R. Tsiang. <em>Freedom of Clay and Brush Through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-Chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D</em>. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of At, 1981.",
            "page_number": "cat. no. 38"
        },
        {
            "citation": "McCausland, Shane. \"China in the Frame: Pots in Paintings, Paintings of Pots, and Paintings on Pots.\" <em>Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society</em> 88 (2024): 40–53.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 42; Reproduced: p. 43, fig. 6"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.50",
    "creditline": "Edward L. Whittemore Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:10:37.292000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.50/1940.50_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 119659,
    "dept": "Chinese Art",
    "coll": "China - Song Dynasty",
    "med": "Buff stoneware with carved underglaze slip decoration, Cizhou ware",
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    "image_url": null
}

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