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    "localId": "127441",
    "label": "Flower Vase",
    "core": "obj",
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{
    "id": "127441",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Flower Vase",
    "description": "Made as two separate elements, this extremely rare example of Saint-Porchaire ware may have been conceived primarily as a tour de force of decorative art.",
    "date": "c. 1520–1540",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.125",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.125/1950.125_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.125/1950.125_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter of top: 14.5 cm (5 11/16 in.); Diameter of base: 45.7 x 17.2 cm (18 x 6 3/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France, 16th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1950.125"
}

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    "tec": "lead-glazed white-paste earthenware, molded and inlaid slip decoration",
    "tombstone": "Flower Vase, c. 1520–1540. Saint-Porchaire (French). Lead-glazed white-paste earthenware, molded and inlaid slip decoration; diameter of top: 14.5 cm (5 11/16 in.); diameter of base: 45.7 x 17.2 cm (18 x 6 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1950.125",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Foote, Helen. \"Three Pieces of Henri II or Saint-Porchaire Ware.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>38, no. 6 (June 1951): 132-133, 140-142.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 133; Mentioned: p. 141.",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141720"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” June 20, 1951, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr0021"
        },
        {
            "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. 242",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n52"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. T<em>he World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 51, fig. 53"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.125",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:33:45.403000",
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    "sourceId": 127441,
    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
    "coll": "Decorative Arts",
    "med": "lead-glazed white-paste earthenware, molded and inlaid slip decoration",
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    ],
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