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    "localId": "122386",
    "label": "Water Pot",
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    "id": "122386",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Water Pot",
    "description": "The \"peach-bloom\" glaze developed during the Kangxi era has been described as \"drunken with beauty.\" The water pot's glaze is in shades ranging from red to grayish rose. The interior and base are covered in white glaze.",
    "date": "1662–1722",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 7.4 cm (2 15/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Jiangxi Province, Jingdezhen, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Kangxi period (1662–1722)"
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    "tec": "porcelain with \"peach bloom\" glaze",
    "tombstone": "Water Pot, 1662–1722. China, Jiangxi Province, Jingdezhen, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Kangxi period (1662–1722). Porcelain with \"peach bloom\" glaze; overall: 7.4 cm (2 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance, 1942.672.a",
    "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)",
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        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "<em>Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936.</em> [Cleveland, OH]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. [68], Plate XXXIII, cat. no. 178; Mention: p. 74, cat. no. 178",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n78"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hollis, Howard. \"Department of Oriental Arts: Chinese Ceramics and Jades.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>29, no. 9 (November 1942): 150–157.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 154, 157; Reproduced: p. 156.",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141018"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Ball, Victoria Kloss. <em>Architecture and Interior Design</em>. New York: Wiley, 1980.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: vol. 1, pl. 14"
        }
    ],
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    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:18:11.222000",
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    "coll": "China - Qing Dynasty",
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