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    "localId": "123697",
    "label": "Vase",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "123697",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Vase",
    "description": "One of these vases is dated 1749. They were perhaps part of a set of four covered vases that we know from documents were acquired by Mme. de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV in 1752.",
    "date": "1749",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.229.2.a",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60780998"
    ],
    "creators": [
        11685
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.229.2.a/1944.229.2.a_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.229.2.a/1944.229.2.a_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.229.2.a/1944.229.2.a_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 38.1 x 33.7 x 20.7 cm (15 x 13 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Germany, Meissen, 18th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1944.229.2.a"
}

{
    "tec": "porcelain mounted in gilt bronze",
    "tombstone": "Vase, 1749. Meissen Porcelain Factory (German, est. c. 1710). Porcelain mounted in gilt bronze; overall: 38.1 x 33.7 x 20.7 cm (15 x 13 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1944.229.2.a",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "on obelisk located in one of the cartouche openings, the date 1749 appears."
        }
    ],
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "1944.230"
    ],
    "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: cat. no. 310",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n61"
        },
        {
            "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. 138",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n162"
        },
        {
            "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. 138",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n162"
        },
        {
            "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. 181",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n201"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 64, no. 67"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.229.2.a",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:22:27.915000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.229.2.a/1944.229.2.a_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 123697,
    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
    "coll": "Decorative Arts",
    "med": "porcelain mounted in gilt bronze",
    "creatorTags": [
        "gender unknown"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.229.2.a/1944.229.2.a_web.jpg",
    "mediaId": "bd34a03f43cb1459"
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